The Periodic Table Neighborhood
2019
On the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Periodic Table – proclaimed by the UN’s General Assembly as the International Year of the Periodic Table – Marionet was invited by the National Commitee for the Celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table and by professor Manuel João Monte, author of the play The Periodic Table Neighbourhood, to stage that very same text.
The scene is set between a classroom (a chemistry class, of course!) and a meeting of the periodic table condominium – in an analogy between the table’s elements and a neighbourhood’s lettered blocks – where the actors play specific chemical elements, whose characteristics are inevitably similar to those elements’ properties. In both spaces we speak of history, sing opera, explore chemistry and discuss contemporaneity.
This show was part of the Official Programme for the Celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table (first presented by Dmitri Mendeleiev in 1869)
Carnaxide | Auditório Ruy de Carvalho | September 19, 20 and 21
Coimbra | Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente | September 26 and 27
Porto | Teatro Helena Sá e Costa | October 3, 4 and 5
Technical and Artistic Credits
Text Manuel João Monte
Direction Mário Montenegro
Cast
Diana Narciso – Ada & Rita
Filipe Eusébio – Hidrogen & Tomás
Mafalda Canhola – Platinum & Sofia
Miguel Lança – Oxigen & Pedro
Nuno Geraldo – Europium & Bruno
Pedro Lamas – Lead & João
Tânia Cardoso – Silver & Teacher
Stage, Wardrobe and Prop Design Pedro Andrade
Technical Direction & Lighting Design João Teixeira
Original Soundtrack & Sound Design Marcelo dos Reis
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Production & Communication Direction Francisca Moreira
Assistant Producer Beatriz Sousa*
Hair Design Carlos Gago – Ilídio Design
Supported by Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Hovione, Oeiras Valley, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Ciência Viva, Direção-Geral da Educação, Ilídio Design Cabeleireiros, MAFIA – Federação Cultural, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra
* Intern Trainee from the Artistic Studies course at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.
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