Universos Paralelos
Universos paralelos is a science fiction show.
It's the first day of work for three security guards in a company. They begin, as in their duty, to watch everything that happens through surveillance cameras. The head of security mysteriously disappears: first from the company, then from everyone's memory and, finally, from the images captured by the surveillance cameras. All of this takes place in a company that produces worlds similar to ours to carry out experiments that allow our world to stop needing surveillance in the near future (resembling Daniel F. Galouye's Simulacron-3).
No one has ever been able to fully embrace this thing that surrounds us and to which we belong called “reality”. We are unable to relate to it, except through our sensitivity (and everyone feels in their own way), or through science (which is always coming to different conclusions), or through philosophy (which is pure theory), or... And, to complicate the problem, we live in a time dominated by the entry into virtual worlds and by the virtualization of our own world.
If we are unable to grasp reality, what does it mean to be “realistic”?
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text and direction Jorge Andrade . collaboration Bernardo Vaz de Castro . video Jorge Jácome and Marta Simões . with (on stage) David Pereira Bastos, Filipa Coreia, Marco Paiva, Marta Correia and (on video) Álvaro Correia, Ana Valentim, António Pedrosa, Joana Costa Santos, João Vicente, Jorge Andrade, Manuel Moreira, Maria Ana Filipe, Maria João Falcão, Mário Coelho, Marta Simões, Mónica Garnel, Pedro Caeiro, Tânia Alves and Vítor d’Andrade, among others . support Elisabete Paiva . set and costumes design José Capela . promotion image António MV and Marta Ramos . stage photography José Carlos Duarte . light and sound direction Pedro Lima . production direction Joana Costa Santos . executive production Bruno Coelho . production and promotion support Jonathan Costa . cultural management and programming Vânia Rodrigues . coproduction Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II e Materiais Diversos
Support Arco & Bésta, Centro Interpretativo das Memórias da Misericórdia de Braga, Clece, Clínica São Cristóvão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional, Intermarche Famalicão, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Purex, Sheraton Hotel Lisboa & SPA, Spartacus Academy, Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Praga . Acknowledgment Aisha Rahim, António Guedes, Camila Labastida Maia, Carlos Maia, Celina Gomes, David Cabecinha, Duarte Nuno Vasconcellos / Buzico, Francisco Valente, Guido Gouveia, Jaime Garcia / Pedras e Pêssegos, Joana Almendra, Professor João Lemos Pinto, João Viegas, Jorge Quintela, Luís Giestas, Luís Urbano, Mariana Ferreira, Marta Labastida, Marta Pereira, Mateus Guedes, Miguel Ribeiro, Nuno Ribeiro, Óscar Seguro, Paulo Cruz, Raphael Fonseca, Ricardo Santos, Rosa Guedes, Rui Monteiro, Sara Leite, Tiago Cadete and Tiago Pinhal Costa
mala voadora is a Government-funded structure by Ministério da Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes and associated with O Espaço do Tempo and Associação Zé dos Bois.