LAST CALL - New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authors - 3rd Edition

Are you going to leave your theater text in the drawer?

You only have until the 31st of March to send us your application for the 3rd Edition of the New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship.

The winning work will be awarded with a cash value of €750 and will be included in the program of This Night Screams, which takes place from October to December 2023, in addition to being edited in a book, through a partnership with the publisher Douda Correria.

Find out what you have to do to send us your application here:

Regulamento_Prémio Nova Dramatugia de Autoria Feminina 2023

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For more information see our website: https://en.cepatorta.org/premio-literario

Don't be late to apply!

OPEN CALL for Artistic Residency - VAGABUNDAS

Until the 28th of February, applications for the Artistic Residency - VAGABUNDAS, aimed at creative women in the areas of theater and performing arts, remain open.

The artistic residence of creation, investigation and research will last for 1 month for two artists selected through this open call, and will take place at Mina de S. Domingos, Mértola, from April 1 to 30, 2023.

A creation scholarship worth €1,000 (one thousand euros) will be awarded to each artist, providing accommodation for the period of residence and allowance for travel costs (1 round trip from their place of residence to the Mina de S. Domingo) and meals for the duration of the residency.

Why "VAGABUNDAS"?

Because it is necessary to continue to give stage to lesser heard voices. And in this case, creation in the feminine and also in the interior of the country, exploring the intersections between these two underrepresented worlds in artistic production. The title "Vagabundas" is a provocation and is stolen from the name of one of the best-known works, and recently reissued, by Mercedes Blasco - actress and singer, from Mina de S. Domingos (Mértola), important in the cultural panorama of Portugal at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Unfortunately, Portugal forgot this name, with Mercedes dying in poverty and not seeing the enormous work of disseminating Portuguese culture that she was responsible for being recognized in her lifetime. Vagabundas intends to give a stage and a voice to Portuguese artists who wanted to develop artistic thinking in the field of performing arts in a decentralized environment, far from the big cities.

Why at the Mina de S.Domingos?

The Cepa Torta Company has had a regular presence at Mina de S. Domingos with the great Malacate project, of multidisciplinary artistic creation that for a year and a half has brought various events, artistic creations with the community and with the participation of artists almost every week. national and northern Europe. This Residence "Vagabundas" arises from the desire to continue the work started by Malacate, taking advantage of the movement created and the will of the population in which Mina and the municipality of Mértola become an unavoidable artistic center in the south of Alentejo and going against the current of oblivion to which many of these areas have been condemned, like the compatriot Mercedes Blasco, an artist with a unique energy but whose work has been forgotten. After Malacate ends, we will continue to develop continuity work, inviting more and more artists and audiences to work with this community, honoring the memory of Mercedes and using her name as an example of creative force, since today the interior and creation in the women do not have the deserved stage, a hundred years ago the panorama was truly desolate.

To find out more about this Residence and to read the Regulation, visit our website.

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The new Season of Esta Noite Grita-se is coming!!

It is already on October 14 that the cycle of interpretations of theater texts from the 6th Season of Festim Esta Noite Grita-se begins. Once again, we traveled to different places in Lisbon (with visits to other parts of the country), with what is "the" itinerant feast of the word read, which celebrates the theatrical text in all its splendor and where, like a banquet , eat, drink and taste the word. Theatrical texts are this kind of link between solitary reading and listening to the word spoken in community. It is in fact a democratic feast, open to all, with presentations led by an artistic direction that accompanies a wide range of actors.

The readings do not obey the canon: there is an actor who reads the didascalias, the texts are almost always read in their entirety and the entire rehearsal process leads to moments endowed with an unusual splendor and exuberance, despite the stripping of the scenic device and the intimate relationship and informal established with the public. This year we have news in terms of programming, with two spaces that make their debut in hosting Esta Noite Grita-se: the Centro Cultural de Belém and the Teatro Nacional D.Maria II. In our usual collaboration with BLX, this year we are going to the Alcântara Library for the first time.

The reading cycle extends from October to December, the first month of this season being dedicated to presentations at the BLX (Galveias Palace Library, Alcântara Library and Marvila Library). In November we will be at CCB and in December we will finish big at TNDMII, with the presentation of the winning text of the 2nd Edition of the New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authors, whose winner will be announced on October 1st. Find out HERE the calendar of the reading cycle for this 6th Season and learn more about the box office. The feast also features parallel activities, such as workshops for reading dramatic texts for young people - in this edition they will take place on October 29 and 30 at the Marvila Library. The workshops are free of charge upon registration through the following contacts: producao@cepatorta.org | (+351) 924 744 048 You can also listen to various readings of texts presented in previous editions on a podcast. The Esta Noite Grita-se podcast can be heard on the main digital platforms and also HERE. Since 2017, this night scream-se has presented, in its five seasons, 27 texts in 77 presentations in different places in Lisbon/rest of the country, with the participation of about 100 actors, with an audience that has been increasingly adhering to this initiative. If you already know, come and bring friends, if you still don't know what this Feast is then it's time to come see and hear it!! This Night Screams awaits everyone, starting on October 14th, with the reading of the first text: The Presidents of Werner Schwab.