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LAMENTO IMENSO | HELSINKI
Svenska Teatern - Nicken-scenen
28.2.-1.3.2023

• Tuesday February 28 at 19.00

• Wednesday March 1 at 19.00

Duration: 70min

Ages: 13 and up

Languages: Portuguese, English

Pricing: 40€ (support ticket), 20€ (full price), 10€ (reduced*)

Accessibility: to book wheelchair spaces, please contact biljetter@svenskateatern.fi

*Students, children, pensioners, unemployed, professionals

LAMENTO IMENSO | HELSINKI

How can a memorial narrative which appears to be “auto-“, “bio-“ and “graphic”, without being “autobiographic”, be staged? How can one speak about incomprehension and disappointment when there are no (more) victims to blame?

 

This performance enters the world of a love letter intertwined with a farewell letter. “Lamento Imenso” has a double meaning in the Portuguese language. The title can mean both “I lament immensely” and “an immense lament”. This meta-linguistic exercise is the backbone of the performance and is a letter from, simultaneously as it is a letter to.  

 

Lamento Imenso | Helsinki premiers in Finland and is a kick-off for the performances of the year 2023 in places where the artist lives, has lived, would love to live or pretend to live. In August 2022, the performance was shown as a project in progress and a preview at the Festival Citemor, Portugal.

 

Rogério Nuno Costa is a performance artist, theatre director, writer, researcher, teacher, and curator based in Helsinki and Porto.

 

Text, dramaturgy, and performance: Rogério Nuno Costa
Assistance: Jani Nummela

Collaborators: Susana Mendes Silva, João Pedro Fonseca, João Pedro Costa

Stage photography: Susana Paiva

Lighting design: Tobias Lönnquist, Rogério Nuno Costa


Co-production and premiere: Festival Citemor (Montemor-o-Velho).

With the support of: Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (Coimbra), Teatro Praga (Lisbon), Galeria Municipal de Almada, Inestética Companhia Teatral, Câmara Municipal de Vila Franca de Xira, Circular Performing Arts Festival (Vila do Conde), Festival Paragem (Algarve), New Theatre Helsinki.

Residencies: Festival Citemor/Teatro Esther de Carvalho (August 2022), Artistas no Palácio/Sobralinho (November 2022), Espaço do Tempo (April 2023).

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