With its precise and clinical language, composed of mysterious and erotic details, Virgin Suicides is inspired upon the text with the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides, adapt to cinema in 1999 by Sofia Coppola, and the novella Mine-Haha by Frank Wedekind. Performed by Luísa Cruz, Vera Mantero, Mariana Tengner Barros and young gymnasts, the show portrays the education of a group of adolescent girls dedicated to physical education, theatre and dance. They live in an apparently idyllic environment, although they lead a cloistered life with a rigid routine. There is something disturbing going on between the walls of this place: besides the fact that the girls are suffering a life of absolute isolation, disconnected from the rest of the world, their submission to a severe physical discipline arouses in each of them a state of exception and violent wishes for annihilation.
Ficha Artística
Creation, direction, cenography
John Romão
Texts
Mickael de Oliveira
With
Luísa Cruz, Mariana Tengner Barros, Vera Mantero and Carlos Lebre, Catarina Bertrand Torres, Céline Martins, Inês Azedo, Inês Costa Graça, Maria Costa, Marta Nunes, Margarida Caldeira, Mariana Cardoso, Mafalda Rey
Music
Caterina Barbieri
Light design
Rui Monteiro
Sound Design
João Neves
Costumes
Carolina Queirós Machado
Vocal support
Nuno da Rocha
Choreography
Collective
Traditional dances
Marco Marques
Staging and production assistance
Solange Freitas
Management, Production
Patrícia Soares | Produção d'Fusão
Production
Colectivo 84
Co-production
Culturgest, Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto), Cine-Teatro Avenida (Castelo Branco)
Artist residencies
Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, CAB - Centro Coreográfico de Lisboa, Companhia Olga Roriz, Companhia Clara Andermatt, ProDança
Cronologia
24 - 25 January 2020, Teatro Rivoli, Porto/Portugal
15 - 18 January 2020, Culturgest. Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar, Lisbon/Portugal
26 October 2019, Fábrica da Criatividade, Castelo Branco/Portugal