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SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2026, 9:30 PM
Esquecimento Global
In 2026, the Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery returns to its own productions with an original creation. The show, which blends theatre and music, is a collaboration between artistic director José Nunes and musician and composer Luca Argel.
Inspired by the worlds of Chico Buarque’s Ópera do Malandro and Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, Global Forgetfulness offers a reflection on a society that chooses to forget. It forgets its history, its defeats, its prejudices, and the tragedies it swore never to repeat. It is precisely within this forgetfulness that it encounters past mistakes once again—now disguised under new forms, new names, and new masks.
Moving between memory and collective amnesia, humour and disillusionment, the show questions how narratives and perceptions are built, and what we choose to remember or forget.
Creation: José Nunes and Luca Argel
Text and Direction: José Nunes
Original Music: Luca Argel
Cast: Allex Miranda, Francisca Sobrinho, Genário Neto, Júlia Prado, Luca Argel, Rodrigo Santos, and Vicente Gil
Musicians: Pri Azevedo, Lizzie Marchi, and Carlos Cesar Motta
Set Design: Filipe Azevedo
Costume Design: Jordann Santos
Lighting Design: Bruno Santos
Soundscapes: Vasco Zentzua
Sound Design: Bruno Marques
Video: Miguel Miranda
Assistant Director: Joana Mesquita
Mediation: Rute Alves and Joana Guilherme Pinto
Executive Production: Ana Ferreira Pinto and Catarina Novais
Communication: Catarina Novais, Guilherme Cardoso, Joana Marujo
Co-production: Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery, A Oficina/Centro Cultural Vila Flor, and Teatro Municipal da Covilhã