Marco Martins, director, director and professor at School of Arts, has a new play at Culturgest: A Colónia.

Directed by Marco Martins, the play is based on an investigation by journalist Joana Pereira Bastos for the newspaper Expresso - “Holidays against the dictatorship” - about the children who, in the summer of 1972, attended a summer camp for the children of political prisoners in Caldas da Rainha. For two weeks, 18 children between the ages of 3 and 14, marked by the imprisonment of their parents and a past of clandestinity and solitude, learned for the first time to play together in freedom. Marco Martins brings together a cast of children and some of the colony's participants to work from their personal stories and experiences and approach a broader reflection on history, memory and oppression, in a piece in which the legacy of intervention music is a fundamental aspect.

Her artistic work often comes from encounters with specific and peripheral communities with whom she develops long creative processes, in which the lives and stories of her performers become the basis of her creations. Far from a so-called documentary theater, each project involves a shared search for the poetry of everyday life.

Marco Martins' new creation opens on Thursday at Culturgest in Lisbon, where it will be on stage until December 14, 2024.

More information and tickets available here.