Peace Is Peace

We know about war because the bullets stored in the dead, mutilated and sick bodies of men are cared for by women. Women who redraw the map of the shrapnel in their bodies, far away but intimate with other battles. Women who struggle with nightmares, silences and pain. Women who clandestinely think about death and bring back the segments of an orange, eating a poem of viscera and peace. Peace is Peace is about these women. It's a theatre of war that began in the life of journalist and poet Maria João Carvalho and then embraced the Colonial War, in the arms of her godmothers, and thought about Ukraine and Palestine. War, after all, is war. And beyond the absence of fruit on the trees, dogs and cats on the streets, beyond the absence of bread and roofs, poems light up like stars.
Peace is Peace is a show that puts the audience face-to-face, body-to-body, eye-to-eye, between conflict and poem, groping for the thickness of peace among the rubble.

Dramaturgy - Ricardo Boléo, based on The Peace of Aristophanes, the journalistic and poetic work of Maria João Carvalho, Nea Kavala, Nea Kavala, by Frederico Martinho and interviews with refugees, madrinhas and war nurses.
Interpretation - Afonso Teixeira Miguel (trumpet), André D. Silva (guitar), André Nunes da Silva (trombone), André Silvestre (trumpet), Cátia Terrinca (voice), Diego Almeida (baritone saxophone), Gonçalo Nunes (percussion), Inês Gomes (percussion), João Maria Carvalho (voice), Maria Ceia (percussion), Maria Falca (trumpet), Mariana Ramos Correia (cello and voice), Ousmane Thiocone (percussion), Teresa Corte-Real (tenor saxophone), Vasco Pereira (tenor saxophone)
Scenography - Bruno Caracol
Costumes - Raquel Pedro
Light design - João P. Nunes
Music and sound composition - João Maria Carvalho, João P. Nunes, Sofia Pinto
Photography - João Versos Roldão
Mediation - Rui Salabarda Garrido
Production - A COLLECTIVE

D. Maria II National Theatre, CAE Portalegre, Ponte de Sor Municipality and Figueira da Foz Municipality partners Banda Euterpe, Charneca Community Centre, Hot Clube Portugal, Portalegre Municipality, Ponte de Sor Municipality Light Orchestra and Quinta Alegre

April Opened Commemorative Commission for the 50th anniversary of 25 April, Lisbon City Council, EGEAC, Museum of Lisbon - Roman Theatre

UMCOLETIVO is an artistic organisation funded by the Portuguese Republic - Culture / DGArtes.