19 nov 2021
21h30
Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve CAPa
show

maridos
teatromosca
portugal
Price 6€ / 5€ (discount for students and seniors over 65)
Duration 120 minutos
Age rating M/16
Tickets available on site
Booking 289 828 784 / 91 8703415
creation Pedro Alves from the film by John Cassavetes
actors Leonor Cabral, Joana Cotrim e Carolina Figueiredo
video concept and direction Ricardo Reis
technical direction & light design Carlos Arroja
set design Pedro Silva
wardrobe Helena Guerreiro
sound & light Diogo Graça
live video by Marco Lopes (Show Ventura)
production manager Inês Oliveira
executive production & photography Catarina Lobo
production teatromosca
ilustration Alex Gozblau
on 21 September 1970, on the television programme ‘The Dick Cavett Show’, the host welcomed the three actors from ‘Husbands’ to promote the film directed by John Cassavetes. The three guests – the director himself, accompanied by Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara – appeared to be highly intoxicated and, for 35 minutes, they smoked, rolled around on the floor, danced absurdly, kissed the presenter, shouted at each other and at the audience non-stop. The programme quickly turned into a chaotic spectacle. It is in dialogue with this emblematic film and this strange television event, more inspired by the mapping of the American director’s creative process, the echoes his work has produced and the dialogues it could establish with the present day, than by the script of ‘Husbands’, that we set out to build a show – now starring three actresses, Leonor Cabral, Joana Cotrim and Carolina Figueiredo.
this “Maridos” (Husbands), directed by Pedro Alves, will focus both on the discussion of the same themes proposed by Cassavetes’ work – the film’s subtitle even announced that it was ’a comedy about life, death and freedom – and on the dissection of those moments in which bodies meet, in cinema and in the performing arts, based on a fluid terrain where the boundaries that would tend to separate life from art, reality from fiction, theatre from cinema, are clearly challenged.