Trojan Horse
From the legend of the Trojan Horse of the Classical Antiquity to the contemporary virtual Trojan Horse, the theme of violation assumes diverse shades within the feminine. If the hollow womb of the wood horse carried the Greek army that in the rescue of Helen, spouse of Menelau, would destroy the city of Troy from within its own centre; the virtual traffic hides in many occasions the malware, that mimicking the classical legend and numerous historical episodes, allow the opening of a system from within, making its information vulnerable to external invasions from unauthorized entities, in the never-ending definition and manipulation of its limits. Not focusing only on the victims sexually abused, TROJAN HORSE explores other forms of physical, psychic and emotional violation of the woman but also the invasion of privacy (from the tradicional stalker to the voyeur) the canons of beauty (from the deviation of cosmetic surgery to the refusal of the parameters of beauty by the mass media and even the actual tradition), and the beliefs,, faiths, values and moral (the rebellion against the social habits), among others.
As an ode to Woman from the goddess Venus to the muse Helen, platonic and passionate symbol across generations, TROJAN HORSE gets us in the motherboard of female eroticism, through attraction and repulse states unravelling behaviors of risk and violence, between love and hate, in the flesh vertigo of sadomasochism.
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artistic direction, scenography and light design André Mendes . original soundtrack Ghuna X . interpretation Marta Cunha . costume design André Mendes; Patrícia Sousa . technical Operation João Teixeira . sponsorship Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian . institucional partners Companhia Instável/Lugar Instável; mala voadora; Ponto Teatro . thanks Cristina Planas Leitão; Emanuel de Sousa