Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
Written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues
Presented by BAM in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival
Schedule
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Sunday, November 17, 2024
NY PREMIERE
“…[Rodrigues] is a humanist at heart, preoccupied with empathy and the ways in which today’s world undermines it.” —The New York Times
It’s a family tradition: once a year, they all get together in their charming Portuguese country home and kill a fascist. For 70 years, this is how they have honored the memory of Catarina Eufémia, an iconic resistance leader and farm worker brutally slain under Salazar’s dictatorship.
But this year, the youngest member of the family is reluctant to perform her initiation and shoot the fascist kidnapped for the occasion. Dramatizing questions as urgent now as they were decades ago, Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists asks what fascism looks like today—and if killing a fascist is an act of resistance, or simply murder?
Last at BAM in 2021 with his internationally acclaimed work By Heart (NYT Critic’s Pick), Festival d’Avignon Artistic Director Tiago Rodrigues brings his uniquely political vision of theater back to New York with this gripping original drama that marries the burning issues of today with the ghosts of our past as only live performance can.
Duration: 150 minutes
Presented by BAM in association with L’Alliance New York.
Venue
Tiago Rodrigues
Named Artistic Director of the Festival d’Avignon in 2022, Tiago Rodrigues is the first foreign artist to helm this preeminent European institution. His work is acclaimed in his native Portugal and across Europe, where he has pursued numerous collaborations and received many honors and awards.
In 2003, Rodrigues and his partner Magda Bizarro founded the company Mundo Perfeito, with which he created around 30 shows, performed in over 20 countries. A charismatic actor, director, teacher, and—perhaps first and foremost— and author, Rodrigues has an open, contemporary view of writing, which involves shaping the work in collaboration with the performers, and which leads him to revisit classics, adapt novels, delve into myths, and mix fiction with reality.
At the heart of Rodrigues’s approach is a vision of theater as a gathering of people. With each work, he aims to rediscover what is truly vital in a particular story and its staging, producing shows stripped of artifice that use the poetry of the world as their raw material.
Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists Credits
Produced by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Executive Producer: Festival d’Avignon
Written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues
Performed by Isabel Abreu + Romeu Costa + António Fonseca + Beatriz Maia + Marco Mendonça + António Parra + Carolina Passos Sousa + João Vicente
Artistic Collaborator: Magda Bizarro
Set Design: F. Ribeiro
Lighting Design: Nuno Meira
Costume Design: José António Tenente
Sound Design and Original Score: Pedro Costa
Choir Director and Vocal Arrangements: João Henriques
Voice-over: Cláudio de Castro + Nadezhda Bocharova + Paula Mora + Pedro Moldão
Choreography: Advisors Sofia Dias + Vítor Roriz
Technical Advisor on Weapons: David Chan Cordeiro
Translated by Thomas Resendes (French) + Daniel Hahn (English) + Vincenzo Arsilio (Italian) + Igor Metzeltin (German)
Surtitles: Patrícia PimentelCo-produced by Wiener Festwochen (Vienna) + Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Modena) + Théâtre de la Cité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie & Théâtre Garonne Scène européenne Toulouse + Festival d’Automne à Paris & Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord + Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale + Comédie de Caen + Théâtre de Liège + Maison de la Culture d’Amiens + BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) + Le Trident – Scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin + Teatre Lliure (Barcelone) + Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães) + O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo)
With the support of Almeida Garrett Wines + Cano Amarelo + Culturgest
Support for surtitling: Cole Fondation
Special Thanks to Mariana Gomes + Rui Pina Coelho + Margarida Bak Gordon + Rita Mendes et l’équipe du / and the team of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II + Sara Barros Leitão & Pedro Gil who, even if they’re no longer on stage with us, will always be Catarina
The show includes songs by Hania Rani (Biesy; Now, Run) + Joanna Brouk (The Nymph Rising, Calling the Sailor) + Laurel Halo (Rome Theme III; Hyphae) + Rosalía (De Plata)
Premiered at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, on September 20, 2020
Presented by La Presse with the support of Institut Français + Consulat général de France à Québec in association with Place des Arts
Texts and interview with Tiago Rodrigues Sara Fauteux
Translation David DalgleishProduction at L’Alliance New York
Programming Manager: Clementine Guinchat
Support for Crossing The Line
and The Wescustogo Foundation
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo Credit:
Lead Image ©Filipe-Ferreira
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