Tiago Rodrigues shows us a terrifying future to scare us with the present | Letters



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Catarina and the beauty of killing fascists It began to take shape in March, during a residency in Montemor-o-Novo, in O Espaço do Tempo. Over the course of a week, the cast of the play was proposing and testing the first ideas about the situation of a family that, for seven decades, has met annually to assassinate someone identified as fascist. A week to give a first layer of depth to this statement, with several sketches that floated in the air, many of them finished based on the final show that opens this Saturday at the Vila Flor Cultural Center, in Guimarães (with a second session on Sunday, from February 11 to 20 it will be at the Carlos Alberto Theater, Oporto, and from April 7 to 25 at D. Maria II, Lisbon). During those days, there were still group views of the series. Years and years or a documentary focused on Steve Bannon (the ideologue of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and a leading figure in his first months in the White House), discussions on the legitimacy of the use of violence in defense of democracy, “classes” on the violence in the history of the theater or the inauguration speeches of populist leaders.

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