INVERNO | Programme Book January-March 2025

This winter we combine mind, imagination, wakefulness, individuality, the soul, metaphorical flows, mental processes, willpower, problem-solving, remembrance, imagination, perception, feelings of pain, dreams and action. Consciousness of Consciousness, which comes from the Latin conscius (con- ‘together’ and scio- ‘to know’).
Together we set out to get to know the world made up of shows, conversations, parties and warm nights in this Municipal Theatre. (…)

Three months of chilling around ideas of consciousness, self-reflexive mirages, fragments of the self, borrowing from that Pessoa-Wilson encounter, Since I’ve been me, a meticulous kaleidoscope, a babelic mechanism of languages and images that confront us with the writings and non-writings of a fictional work that also explains us, the people who live in this geographical and mental territory. Pessoa, brother of Kafka, brother of Beckett, our father… and so on… (…)

Miguel Loureiro, artistic director of the São Luiz Theatre (in editorial Caderno de Programação Trimestral INVERNO)