Rehearsal for a Cartography

Resistance. Courage. Overcoming. In Ensaio para uma Cartografia we watch the construction of an individual and colective progression. This shows emerges from a path wich Mónica Calle started in 2014, based on Bertolt Brecht’s Seven Deadly Sins and Luís Lopes’s A Boa Alma. Along  this path she tried to draw an alternative cartography. Firstly through the city of Lisbon and later throughout several regions in Portugal. How can you map a city, a country? How do you start over? How do you go on?

Inspired by the orchestra rehearsals of great  conductors and by the movements of classical ballet, twelve actresses dance. Each show is a rehearsal, a possibility of overcoming, a new cycle in the construction of a path, a mark on the cartography that is beign built.

Directed by Mónica Calle

Performers present in PT’19
Ana Água; Cleo Tavares; Eufrosina Makengo; Lucília Raimundo; Mafalda Jara; Maria Inês Roque; Miu Lapin; Mónica Calle; Mónica Garnel; Roxana Lugojan; Sílvia Barbeiro; Sofia Vitória
Light design José Álvaro Correia
Light operation Renato Marinho
Sound design Consultor and adaptationSérgio Henriques
Sound operationJosé Miguel Vitorino
Assistents directorInês Vaz eJosé Miguel Vitorino
Production Inês Vaz
Other performers of “Ensaio para uma Cartografia”
Brígida Sousa; Carolina Varela; Inês Pereira; Inês Vaz; Joana Campelo; Joana de Verona; Marta Félix; Sofia Dinger

Teaser
https://vimeo.com/209003394

MÓNICA CALLE
Mónica  Calle
In 1992, starts the project Casa Conveniente. Since then has worked from the texts of authors like Dagerman, Fiama Paes Brandão, Handke (Light /Interior, 2004 Special Mention of the Portuguese Theatre Critics Association – APCT), Thomas Bernhard, Pirandello, Strindberg, Beckett, Chekhov, among others. Since 2007 carries out several workshops blending actors and non-actors through a mixture of classes/rehearsals and performances. In 2009 launches a project training actors in prison, in two different ways: theatre work on a penitentiary, and the integration of former inmates as actors in Casa Conveniente.
In 2013 starts the migration of Casa Conveniente to the Zona J of Chelas, a council estate and creates the Associação Cultural Zona Não Vigiada (No Surveillance Zone), which gives its name to a new theatre space in Lisbon, Casa Conveniente / Zona Não Vigiada. This marks a return to the founding idea: to work from the margins.
From  2015 to 2018 she directed successive stagings of the project “Ensaio Para uma Cartografia”- presented in several different theatres through Portugal and considered The Best Portuguese Performance of 2017 by “Público” a referenced portuguese newspapper. In these years she directs as well the also ongoing project “Rifar o Meu Coração” (To sell my heart), presented in Zona J in Chelas and Bairro da Sé in Porto, both very marginalised neighbourhoods.
In 2017 she is honoured by the portuguese government with the Women In Culture Recognition – The Maria Isabel Barreno Award.