Foto: Vera Carmo

PAROLE, PAROLE, PAROLE...
Dinis Machado
PT
Theater

Palácio D. Manuel, Évora
September 27th, 9.30PM

Duration: 80min.
M/12A
5€ / 3€ (students)

A show by - Dinis Machado, corp.
Performance - Ana Rocha, Dinis Machado, Inês Vaz e Jorge Gonçalves
Advising - José Capela
Costumes - Miguel Flor
Production, Direction assistance - Ana Rocha (Obra Madrasta)
Co-production - Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica and Galeria Zé dos Bois
Support - Fundação Caloust Gulbenkian, Pedras e Pêssegos and Teatro Nacional S.João
Thanks to - Sérgio Julião (VoiceLand), Filipe Taxas, Retroparadise, Lisa Cepeda e Vera Carmo
Project developed at 'Serviço Permanente' / NEC


Parole, parole, parole... (Words, words, words...) is a challenge to emptying words from its meaning, as well as an exercise of translation and rendering codes. Thus, Parole, Parole, Parole... leads us to an approach of re:play which is closer to notions of re:invetion and re:criation, and farther from plain re:petition.

When we face a language we do not understand, a code we are not familiar with, or when fascinated by a code we detach from its content, we tend to create “images”. In Parole, parole, parole... the scene becomes the communication device that generates these “images”, which come up when verbal discourse is replaced by contemplation. As we become voyeurs in a kind of communicational dead end, we are more available to analyze the “images” and create a metadiscourse about them. In this theater, characters are devoided of identity. They are anonymous interlocutors in a series of translations on stage, which overlap on each other and leave traces of signification from the text that is being transferred. The dialogs and translations – mostly in French and English – push away the possibility of fully understanding what is happening, in an almost-satire about the misfit between signification and context, which is extremely common in our social intercourses. In addition, the use of codes and clichés from mainstream culture, suggests a critique about its logics of bourgeois entertainment.

Dinis Machado was born in OPorto. He was trained as actor in Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo and Balleteatro Centro de Formação (where he also studied contemporary dance). He studied visual arts in Independent Study Program of Visual Arts at Maumaus (Lisbon). As actor he worked with various collectives and directors. Since 2007 he develops his own work as creator, signing the pieces Ponto de Fuga and Dramaturgia, the performances Only you and Vernissage/Finissage, as well as the installations Nowhere and E Eis que de súbito descobriu uma nova porta na sua mesma e velha casa.