Look at the Nicholas Witch

Look at the Witch, Nicolau is a show for all children, whose title was found in the traditional Portuguese songbook. It can also be an invitation to an ancestral journey. There are three women on stage: they could be the witches that Shakespeare invented to torment MacBeth, or the sorceresses and healers, daughters of those witches, that Maria Manuela Couto Viana talks about in her book. On stage, there are three apprentice grandmothers: what could be hidden among the recipes for curing cancer or the prayers for finding lost objects? What story can these women who wore black, grew noses and flew on broomsticks tell?

The show is a mystical and intimate poem that contributes to re-signifying witches in the collective unconscious, bringing them back from exile to an opportunity for us to look at them as doctors and ecologists - and with them to immerse ourselves in the possibility of a regenerative future.

Dramaturgy - Ricardo Boléo, based on Witches, Dead People, Ghosts and Apparitions by Maria Manuela Couto Viana and oral tradition records
Interpretation - Cátia Terrinca, Cheila Lima and Patrícia Andrade
Scenography - Bruno Caracol
Costumes - Raquel Pedro
Light and Sound - João P. Nunes
Mediation and audiences - Rui Salabarda
Staging support - Herlandson Duarte
Partnerships - António Arroio Art School
Co-producers - CCB / Fábrica das Artes, CAE Portalegre, Teatro do Noroeste, Municipalities of Ponte de Sor, Montalegre and Miranda do Corvo