Event endedHeld on August 09, 2026 – August 10, 2026
A Country Which is Night at the Cândido Mendes Theatre
Rua Joana Angélica, 63 – Ipanema
The Cândido Mendes Theatre, in Ipanema, receives on 9 and 10 August the Portuguese show "A Country That Is Night", which arrives in Rio after season in Portugal and participate in the 32nd edition of the Porto Alegre Festival in Cena, in 2025. With sessions at 8:00, the assembly proposes a reflection on..
O Teatro Cândido Mendes, in Ipanema, receives the Portuguese show on August 9 and 10 "A country that is the night", who arrives in Rio after a season in Portugal and participate in the 32nd edition of the Porto Alegre Festival in Cena, in 2025. With sessions at 20h, the assembly proposes a reflection on memory, authoritarianism and freedom of expression from an episode inspired by the history of Portugal.
Directed by the playwright Martim Pedroso, the play imagines a meeting between writers Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, important names of Portuguese literature and intellectual resistance to the New State. The plot takes place a few hours before Jorge de Sena's departure into exile in Brazil in 1959, when the conversation between the two is interrupted by PIDE agents, the political police of the Portuguese dictatorship.
The text is signed by writer and journalist Flavia Lins e Silva, Portuguese-Brazilian novelist Tatiana Salem Levy and playwright Martim Pedroso.
ServiceTimetable: 8:00.
Location: Teatro Cândido Mendes
Address: Rua Joana Angélica, 63 – Ipanema
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Date and time
August 9 – 10
All day
Rua Joana Angélica, 63 – Ipanema
Starts
Sunday, August 09
Ends
Monday, August 10
Admission
Paid admission
Address
Rua Joana Angélica, 63 – Ipanema
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