20:00 saturdays, 15:30 sundays, 20:00 mondays
saturdays night 
in Portuguese
Sonho de uma noite de verão / The Fairy Queen
A TV set bustling with sixty or so artists, actors, dancers, singers, camera crews, a baroque music ensemble, in the middle of a strange Oscar ceremony interspersed from time to time with scenes from The Fairy Queen by Purcell and A Midsummer’s Night Dream by Shakespeare.
Just before the intermission, about ten installations by Spanish and Portuguese artists take the place of the commercials. In the small adjoining room, the “green room”, the “Oscar nominees” are waiting.
A young company (a fictional one) “The End of Irony” is responsible for the “novelty/ revolutionary content”, essential for any good consensual TV programme. The Teatro Praga (the Black Death, the plague of pestilence) works with hybrid forms: theatre, philosophy, artist’s installations, cinema, performance, music, which, once brought together, create a new, astonishing, spectacular language. What a feast !
LISBON
A Midsummer’s Night Dream by Shakespeare.
The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell
Teatro Praga and Os Músicos Do Tejo
Creation André E. Teodósio, Cláudia Jardim, José Maria Vieira Mendes, Patrícia Da Silva, Pedro Penim
with André E. Teodósio, Diogo Bento, Joana Barrios, Joana Manuel, Patrícia Da Silva, Rodolfo Teixeira
Soloists Raquel Camarinha, Rossano Ghira, João Sebastião, Nuno Dias
The Olisipo Chorus Elsa Cortês, Lucinda Gerhard, João Moreira, Armando Possante
The team of Turning Bruno Reis, Francisca Rodrigues, Joana Frazão, Leonor Noivo, Nuno Morão, Salomé Lamas
Invited artists Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Catarina Campino, Javier Núñez Gasco, João Pedro Vale, The End Of Irony (Diogo Lopes, Ivo Silva, Miguel Cunha, Rita Morais, Ricardo Teixeira), Vasco Araújo, Vicente Trindade
Musicians Do Tejo Baptiste Lopez, Tami Troman, Maria Mosconi, Vincent Malgrange, Jean-Charles Denis, Bruno Fernandes, Marie-Ange Petit, Marcos Magalhães, Marta Araújo
Musical direction Marcos Magalhães
Video realization André Godinho
Lights Daniel Worm d’Assumpção
Sound Ricardo Guerreiro
Scenography Bárbara Falcão Fernandes
Green Room Filipe Carneiro (Triplinfinito)
Costumes Carla Cardoso
Fotos © Alípio Padilha
