Australopiteco

Theatre show for children

What is it to be different and how do we react to difference?
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Four children meet on a playground and confront their similarities and differences. Integrating group dynamics and peer tension, they learn to deal with the conflicts of living together. Through play and games they discover their relationship with each other and with the outside world, while they challenge themselves to find the Perfect World. But... does it exist?
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Australopiteco is a Children's Theater show that intends to promote reflection on the issues of difference. The narrative mixes reality and fiction, real stories with episodes from the children's imagination.

Australopiteco
Australopiteco
Australopiteco
Australopiteco
Australopiteco
Australopiteco
Australopiteco

1 ©Ana Brandão • 2-3 ©Óscar Silva • 4-10 ©Helena Melo
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Available for touring
Staging and text Adriana Melo
Text curator Alice Vieira
Performers Beatriz Brito, Clara Franco, David Teixeira and Magnum Soares
Set and costume design Rita Capelo
Set design Jorge Aguiar
Original music Steven Gillon (Composer) and João Alves (Co-composer)
Light design Luís Moreira
Movement support Diana Niepce
Dramaturgy support Matilde Soares
Directing assistance Carolina Santarino
Production Universo Paralelo
Co-production EGEAC
‍Partners Associação de Paralisia Cerebral de LisboaSupport to the artistic residence Break a Leg Associação Cultural, Centro Cultural da Malaposta, Companhia Olga Roriz, DeVIR/CAPa and Produções Real Pelágio, Associação Cultural
Supporters A Leiriense - Materiais de Construção, Fábrica de Óculos do Cacém e do Chiado
Project funded by the Portuguese Republic - Directorate-General for the Arts

Audience All the public (M/6)
Duration 50 minutes

Dossier
Technical Rider
Clipping
Premiere
Claustro do Museu da Marioneta Lisbon • May 2021
      • 6th and 5th (for schools)
       • 8th and 23rd (all audience)

Show available with interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) and audio description (AD)
Tour
• Theatre of Voice Lisbon • 26 november 2021
• Beatriz Costa Municipal Auditorium Mafra • 20 march 2022
• Malaposta Cultural Centre Odivelas • 28 and 29 may 2022
• Marvila Library Lisboa • 29 june 2022 (for schools)
• MOCHILA - Theatre festival for children and young people Faro (Garden of Alameda João de Deus) • 6 November 2022
• College of the Sacred Heart of Mary Lisbon (Alameda) • 31 march 2023
• Albufeira Municipal Auditorium • 14 may 2023
• Funchal Book Fair • 1 march 2024 (for schools) and 2 march (all audience)
«‘I COULD BE YOU and you could be me,’ suggests Clara, a chubbier girl than the others, but with the same desire to make friends, play and laugh out loud. ‘You could be me and I could be you or you or you,’ she insists. And indeed, if you think about it, each of us could have been someone else. Thanks to the lottery of life, we exist in this colour, shape and form, in this place, in this time. And, most importantly, in community. At school, at home, in the world, there's always someone who isn't us. If we were the other, how would we like to be treated? The company Universo Paralelo poses the question with Australopiteco (...)»

Making the difference
Raquel Dias da Silva
In Time Out Portugal
05/2021

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