F for Fiama - Mariana Pineda

Mariana Pineda, directed by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão from the text of the same name by Frederico Garcia Lorca, premiered in 1975 in the context of the Hoje Theatre Group, of which Fiama was a founder (with Gastão Cruz and Carlos Fernando). The staging and dramaturgy are one of the most visible and corporeal possibilities for studying Fiama's theatre practice (made possible, among other things, by the revolutionary end of the Portuguese dictatorship). We set ourselves the challenge of rebuilding this staging from the existing archive: the director's almost complete scenic version, Jorge Peixinho's musical score and Igrejas Caeiro's programme about the show.

F for Fiama is a process of theatrical archaeology and, at the same time, a proposal for a (posthumous but tangible) collaboration between UMCOLETIVO and Grupo de Teatro Hoje. It's the certainty that personal archives are the full possibility of studying 20th century Portuguese women. It is the rescue of the living memory of the show (of actors, spectators and critics) in order to rebuild it, in a dialogue between two artistic nuclei that propose tensions to the process and the scene, through the relationship with history, through the very idea of the image of what theatre is today and what it was 50 years ago, but above all through the visitation of what remains of the ephemeral.

A project by UMCOLETIVO and GMCL - Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, which includes students from the Theatre course at the University of Évora.

Interpretation

Mariana Pineda - Cátia Terrinca
Clavela - Carla Vasconcelos
Pedrosa - Pedro Lacerda
Anguish - Mónica Garnel
Conspirator - Sílvio Vieira
Pedro - Bruno Ambrósio
Lúcia - Inês Sousa
Alegrito - Xavier Guerreiro
Amparo - Daniela Madeira Mendonça
Conspirator - Mário Sena
Fernando - Francisco Patola
Mariana's Children - Jacinto Nunes and Matilde Paiva

Original text by Federico García Lorca
Translation by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
Original Music by Jorge Peixinho
Fixing the text - Cátia Terrinca, João P. Nunes, Luís Eduardo Graça, Raquel Pedro, Ricardo Boléo, Xavier Guerreiro

Staging - Cátia Terrinca, from the original work by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
Staging support - Sílvio Vieira and Ricardo Boléo
Scenography - Bruno Caracol, from the original work by Manuel Batista
Light Design, Sound Design and Technical Direction - João P. Nunes
Costumes - Raquel Pedro
Mediation and audiences - Rui Salabarda
Production Trainee - Luís Eduardo Graça

Lisbon Contemporary Music Group
Rui Pinheiro - Musical direction, keyboards and percussion
Mariana Robert Preto - Flute
Joana Devesa - Recorder, chromorna, cornamusa and percussion
Jorge Sá Machado - Cello
Fátima Juvandes - Percussion
Ricardo Mateus - GMCL Coordination
Fernando Santos - Production assistant

Audiovisual Team
Photography - João Versos Roldão
Image post-production - Francisco Vizeu Pinheiro
Camera Operation - Filipe Moura and Rayana Rei
Sound capture and post-production - Fábio Duarte, Elias Garcia Marreiros and Tomás

Centro de Artes e Espetáculos de Portalegre (Municipality of Portalegre), Cineteatro Louletano (Municipality of Loulé), Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras (Municipality of Torres Vedras), Municipalities of Montijo, Oeiras, Ponte de Sor and Setúbal

UMCOLETIVO is a structure supported by the Portuguese Republic - Culture - Directorate-General for the Arts

University of Évora
Lisbon Military Museum
United Artists
Quinta Alegre
Convent Theatre
TIL - Independent Theatre of Loures