When you return to where you were once happy, you find the echo of voices like ghosts.
Almost two decades after being forced to abandon the space of the Armazém at the Miguel Bombarda Hospital, Teatro Praga is invited by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II to temporarily reoccupy it for a performance, as part of the company’s 30th anniversary celebrations. However, times have changed, and interventions on the building and the city have transformed both the context and the architecture. Likewise, Teatro Praga is no longer Teatro Praga. This return without return is the starting point for their new performance: Audição.
In this creation, Teatro Praga makes itself heard for what it was and what it is: a collective that is simultaneously inside and outside an idea of theatre, seeking a specific kind of resistance in its relationship with places, bodies, and disciplines. Teatro Praga will always step into the wrong performance, and Audição is therefore a casting where only mistakes are possible, because what is being looked for does not exist. With no age limit, physical requirements, or professional expectations, this audition is bound to go wrong — and that’s exactly the point. It is in the mismatch between expectation and present, between past and future, that this Audição takes shape.

a Teatro Praga performance
performed by André e. Teodósio, Ângelo Castro, Cláudia Jardim, Diogo Bento, Inês Vaz, Joana Barrios, João Duarte Costa, José Maria Vieira Mendes, Júlio Mesquita, Paula Diogo and guests
original music Alex D’Alva Teixeira
lighting design Daniel Worm d’Assumpção
costume design Joana Barrios
mascot Miss Suzie
wardrobe support Tita Mendes
set design support Joana Sousa
communications Inês Lampreia
executive production Rita Pessoa
production direction Teresa Miguel
residency support O Espaço do Tempo
support from Infraestruturas de Portugal (Sala do Rei)
special thanks Paulo Julião
co-production Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery, and Teatro Praga