À Transparência
Joana Craveiro (dir.)
(Senior undergraduates BA Theater)
PT
Theater
July 2nd and 3rd, 9.30PM
Fábrica dos Leões, University of Évora

Duration: 120min.
Max. seats: 40
All ages

Free entrance

Direction - Joana Craveiro
Co-creation, performance, writing - Margarida Alegria, Kalinde Braga, Henrique Calado, Tânia Dias, Rubi Girão, Ana Lopes, Cláudia Miriam, Daniel Moutinho, Diana Pires, Cristina Rodrigues, Marcília Rodrigues, Joana Velez, Théo Zackmann
Light design - Paulo Ramos, Joana Craveiro
Stage setup direction - Paulo Ramos
Executive Production - Cristina Rodrigues
Production - Festival Escrita na Paisagem
Thanks to - Alice Fernandes, André Salvador, Aninhas Sousa, C.A.L., Café das Tâmaras, Custodia Ribeiro, Família Alegria, Inês Rei, Joana Velez, Joana Rodrigues, Lígia Santos, Lúcio Neto, Maria da Graça Moutinho, Paulo Ramos, Pedro Serronha Jorge, Teatro  do Vestido

We became what our image was, when frozen in a picture. But then we did not want to be lie that and we fought to pull to pieces, one by one, all the photographs in which we have been enclosed. At that time when they photographed us without asking for permission, at that time when we sat to be photographed without knowing it, at that time when they could still lure us with money (to buy gum) to put on the dress with the big bow, or to comb our hair, or to be presentable. At that time when we were presentable. At that time when we did not use the term ‘at that time’.

One day a set of photographs of people we do not know just came to our hands. One day we started writing-talking about that. One day became those people, or those people allowed us to start talking about ourselves. One day we realized we were using the words ‘one day’. As, suddenly, everything was in the past, everything thing was wonderings about someone else’s life. 
Then we brought in our own photographs. A set of them. Then we installed on a wall that that we were. Then we went to the streets with the specific task of organizing a guided tour to a iven place. Then the term ‘then’ became obsolete, and it was at that point we started repeating things. Ideas, texts, scenes. Suddenly we became machines to freeze moments. Our body became that. The machine we wanted to talk about, the process concerning our exercise – that of freezing moments – was ourselves, after all. We, that have not yet being born to this fact: the fact that we see what is not there; that which is not really there, we mean. We make up what we see, we construct what we see, and that is OK, we accept fiction as a natural aspect of life.

Our eyes are machines of freezing memories. Our head is the machine that edits them. Or, at least, we wanted it to work like that. In fact, we are not really machines. We are just transparent.

À Transparência (See through) is the final exercise by the students of the BA Theater of University of Évora. We are creating it as a kind of epic on gaze and memory, we are crossing a path to find ourselves through this creation. The piece is divided into several parts: Prólogo (Prolog), Câmara Escura (Dark Room), Estúdio de Revelação (Photo Lab), Lá Fora (Outside).

The exercise departed from photograph, the act of photographing, memory, autobiographic practices in a performative context, and the act of mapping the city.

Joana Craveiro


Joana Craveiro is actress, director, co-founder and artistic director of the theater collective Teatro do Vestido. In 2004, she finished her Master of Drama em Encenação at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, in Glasgow. She has a BA Anthropology by  Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCSH, she taught Acting at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, between 2004 and 2006, as well as at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, in 2004. In that same year, she won the Avrom Greenbaum Direction Award of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2006, she finished the 2nd Direction Program at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, coordinated by Professor Alexander Kelly, from the company Third Angel. In Scotland, in 2003, she was direction assistant of Graham Eatough from Suspect Culture Theatre Company. She has been working with a variety of creators as dramaturgist. Since October 2006 she directs, with other members of Teatro do Vestido, the pedagogic project Zonas.