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Prometo-me Moderna (I promise myself Modern)

Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
By Alice Azevedo
©Pedro Macedo_Framed Photos
Past event
Dates and Schedules

11 to 21 December
Wednesday to Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 5.30pm

Venue

Sala Luis Miguel Cintra

Price

€12 to €15 (with discounts) | (Included in the Culture Pass – only available at the Theatre box office)

Age Restriction

14+

Accessibility
Portuguese Sign Language

14 Dec, Sunday, 5.30pm

Closed captions

17 to 21 Dec, Wednesday to Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 5.30pm

Audio Description

19 and 21 Dec, Friday, 8pm; Sunday, 5.30pm

Description

Tickets purchased for the session canceled due to the General Strike on December 11 are valid for any other session, but must be exchanged through the same channel through which they were purchased. You can also request a refund for the ticket price until December 21.

Theater Box Office
Tel. 213 257 651/20 | bilheteira@teatrosaoluiz.pt
Online box office: info@bol.pt

 

 

In an undetermined year, before the common era, Prometheus made a promise and kept it. And he was punished for it. In 17–, above the village of Chamounix, Switzerland, the Creature tells its story to its creator. In 1818, in England, Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In 1993, in San Francisco, Susan Stryker writes My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix – Performing Transgender Rage. In 2025, in Portugal, a trans artist sees themselves as part of all this. All these fragments. All broken. All together.

 


 

Susan Stryker, in conversation with Alice Azevedo
13 December
Saturday, 4pm

Taking the show Prometo-me Moderna (I Promise Myself Modern) as its theme, this conversation draws on one of the texts that the play uses as its source and theme: My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix – Performing Transgender Rage, by Susan Stryker. The author of the text and the author of the play will be present, not excluding the possibility that the author of the novel may also come to haunt the event, in support or outrage (at her discretion).

Cast and Creative

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Alice Azevedo Support for creation and movement Bruno Huca WITH Alice Azevedo, June João, Lila Vivo, Stela, Vítor Silva Costa LIGHTING DESIGN Manuel Abrantes SET Daniela Cardante Sonoplasty SURMA COSTUMES Behén Sound Operation and Design Guilherme Gonçalves Wardrobe Assistant Mariana Oliveira Set Design Assistant Nádia Gama EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Beatriz Cuba, Margarida Zeferino RESIDENCIES O Espaço do Tempo, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Silly Season CO-PRODUCTION Causas Comuns, Cineteatro Louletano, Creation Grant O Espaço do Tempo, supported by Fundação «la Caixa» and São Luiz Teatro Municipal /// Causas Comuns is an entity funded by the Government of Portugal — Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/Directorate-General for the Arts and is a member of Performart – Association for Performing Arts in Portugal.

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