Ali é Tória - Premiere

Ali é Tória is Luísa Osório's debut play! It premieres on September 12th, and we need your help to make it happen!

SYNOPSIS

Ali é Tória is a play about two characters' journey to the site of a seemingly random anomaly that scrambled and distributed some of the meanings and senses of planet Earth. Unsure whether it is an anomaly in the cosmic, random sense, or caused by man or another type of intelligence, João and Júlia embark on a journey with the same goal but different objectives, introducing us to this new, seemingly "bubblegum" version of the world. They also unravel what they believe to be humanity's past, generating ridiculous interpretations for fragments of current history (what is war? What is climate change? What is love? What was the role of parents?). Raised by guardians/humanoid versions, these characters, belonging to Generation 0, reflect on their present, conspire about their past, and project a future where the world would be what, unbeknownst to them, it is today. Themes such as meanings; artificial intelligence; climate change; quantum physics; perceived reality and imagined reality; the random; politics.
"Ali é Toria" is a new possibility of ending/or of how to begin again, arising from the weariness of the constant presentation of current content, of chaos, catastrophe, end, death itself, and the death of hope. However, not everything is as rosy as it seems.

STARTING POINT...

A tiny Italian town, Toria, is believed to have been the birthplace of this transformation that led to the replacement of the planet's fundamental meanings. An imaginary world now prevails, one that eschews the idea of eschatology, inspired by pop narratives and cartoon bubblegum. Installed on two treadmills, the two characters also seem to come from different worlds, highlighting one's surrender to the new reality and the other's obsession with the past and the search for the reasons behind this change. The underlying idea remains that this intervention created a world born from the mind of a child, or from the mind of an adult who creates stories for children, masking without erasing the concepts of evil, the end, catastrophe, deception, manipulation, and selfishness.

Writing and Directing | Written and Directed
Luisa Osório

Interpretation | Acting
Nadia Matos, João Tarrafa

Voiceover
Carolina Carvalho Gomes, Sara Pazos, Simao Osorio

Set and Costume Design
Sara Pazos

Sound Design
Fabio Ferreira

Lighting Design
Tiago Silva

About the author

Luísa Osório graduated from ESMAE and Balleteatro, and in 2022 attended the New York Film Academy's Acting for Film and Television course at Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles. Previously, as a performer, she worked with creators Nuno M. Cardoso, Marta Freitas, Pedro Penim, Tin Brendel, Jayce Baron, Luís Diogo, Sara Pazos, among others (on theater and film projects). As a technical director, she worked with Marco da Silva Ferreira, Mickael de Oliveira, Maria Inês Marques, and Camila Morello, and at the Teatro Municipal do Porto. In addition to developing a career as a stage director, technical coordinator, and producer, she wrote the untitled play on the theme of obstetric violence, part of the "O Estado das Coisas"/2024 program of Coletivo Amanda, a collective of which she has been a member since 2019. Currently, she dedicates herself exclusively to artistic creation, writing, and acting, and is also one of the founders of Coletivo Aleatória.

Budget and due dates

To execute this show, we need to secure some funding, namely: promotion and communication, costumes, set design, image capture, and technical supplies (to help us achieve some beautiful lighting). To achieve this, we need to reach the proposed budget of 1,000 euros! Please help us! And come see for yourself what we can create together!
We'll be rehearsing and creating throughout August, and we'll finally premiere on September 12th at 9:30 PM at the Gaia Municipal Auditorium! The show will be repeated on September 13th at the same time. Come see us—you're very welcome!
 

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