About Teatro Praga

Who needs Realism
when we can have Fakism?

Teatro Praga [“Plague Theatre”] define themselves as a group or federation of artists, with a coat of arms and a history. When someone asks who they are, they usually propose a rephrasing of the question, since they are something different with every show or day that passes. Still, they rejoice with the established order and find the unpredictable variations of themselves to be a way of enlarging the concept of predictability.
Teatro Praga was born in 1995 and is currently located at Rua das Gaivotas in Lisbon. The group has been regularly creating theatre plays co-produced by the most prestigious contemporary cultural institutions in Portugal and have performed at several festivals and events in other European countries (Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Denmark and Poland), in Israel and in China.

Rua das Gaivotas 6

Teatro Praga’s scope of activity has always surpassed the borders of theatre. We have never pictured ourselves as mere creators of performances, but above all as a constellation of people who are looking at the world.
Rua das Gaivotas 6 follows a project that has started 20 years ago and that has dodged definitions through continuous changes. Today, we are here. This is not Teatro Praga, this is a building that we intend to establish as a place for performances, movement, residencies and readings, a former School, now opened to a neighborhood and a city.
Rua das Gaivotas 6, as imagined by Teatro Praga, is a space where one can devise freedom and spend time looking at oneself not subjected to normalization. Here, we welcome in: performing arts, visual arts, conferences, literature, cinema and workshops. The current artistic director of Rua das Gaivotas 6 is Patrícia Portela.

Sponsors and Patrons

Structure Financed by

Structure Supported by

Headquarters at Rua das Gaivotas 6

Supported by

Alkantara Festival
CENTA (Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas)
Capa
Casa Fernando Pessoa
Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães)
Centro Cultural de Belém
Centro de Artes de Ovar
Culturgest
Cão Solteiro
DeVIR / CAPa
Editora Sistema Solar
Embaixada de Portugal – Camões Berlim
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Fundação EDP / MAAT
Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB)
Goethe Institut
Institut Français du Portugal
Instituto Camões
LU.CA Teatro Luís de Camões
MC93
Maison de la Culture de Bobigny
Município da Marinha Grande
O Espaço do Tempo
Rota Clandestina
S. Luiz Teatro Municipal
TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto
Teatro Municipal Maria Matos
Teatro Municipal do Porto
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Teatro Nacional S. João
Teatro Viriato
Temps d’Images
Thêatre de la Ville
Transforma AC
ÍKSV – Ístanbul Tiyatro Festivali (Turquia)

Resident company for the 2009/2010 season at the Belém Cultural Centre.

Teatro Praga is a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
Teatro Praga is an associated structure of O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo.

Team

Artistic Direction

André e. Teodósio

Cláudia Jardim

Diogo Bento

José Maria Vieira Mendes

 

Head of production

Teresa Miguel

 

Executive Producer

Rita Pessoa

 

Communication

Afonso Pereira de Matos

 

Financial Assistant

Teresa Cunha

Contacts

OFFICE
Telf: +351 214 092 039
Morada: Rua das Gaivotas, 2, 1200-202 Lisboa

HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Teresa Miguel
Tm: +351 919 271 631
Email: producao@teatropraga.com

PRODUCTION
Rita Pessoa
Tm: +351 931 351 068
Email: teatropraga@teatropraga.com

COMMUNICATION
Afonso Matos
Tm: +351 933 096 966
Tlf: +351 210 962 355
Email: comunicacao@teatropraga.com

RUA DAS GAIVOTAS 6 COORDINATION
Patrícia Portela
Tm: +351 210 962 355
Email: ruadasgaivotas@teatropraga.com