Catarina
Catarina
Macgowan Hall, UCLA
245 Charles E. Young Dr. East, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Runtime: 150 minutes
No intermission
In Portuguese with English supertitles
Audience Advisory: This production contains strong language, violence and loud sound effects. Recommended for audiences age 17 and older.
CAP UCLA Member presale: Jun 22 at 10 am
Newsletter subscriber presale: Jun 23 at 10 am
General public on sale: Jun 24 at 10 am
UCLA faculty and staff: Jun 24 at 10 am
UCLA students: Sep 21 at 10 am
A young woman must carry out a deadly family tradition in Catarina, a play by Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues.
"slows the world down and invites us to think" — The New York Times
Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues returns to CAP UCLA with an arrestingly original theatrical work. Catarina’s family has a rather unusual tradition: each year, they come together in celebration as one family member kills a fascist at the family’s country home in the south of Portugal. When it is time for Catarina, the youngest member of the family, to carry on the legacy and kill a fascist, she finds herself unable to commit the act and questions this familial ritual.
Catarina’s moral quandary results in chaos as the family defends and debates the ethics of their cause: What is a fascist? Is there a place for violence in the struggle for a better world? Can the rules of democracy be violated in attempts to find better ways to defend it?
Production: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa)
Executive production: Festival d’Avignon
Co-production: Wiener Festwochen, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Modena), Théâtre de la Cité - CDN Toulouse Occitanie & Théâtre Garonne Scène européenne Toulouse, Festival d’Automne à Paris & Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Comédie de Caen, Théâtre de Liège, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Le Trident – Scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Teatre Lliure (Barcelona), Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo).
Support Almeida Garrett Wines, Cano Amarelo, Culturgest
Thanks to Mariana Gomes, Rui Pina Coelho, Margarida Bak Gordon, Rita Mendes and the team of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. We also thank Sara Barros Leitão, Pedro Gil and Rui M. Silva who, even though they are no longer on stage with us, will always remain Catarina.
Music by Hania Rani (‘Biesy et Now,’ ‘Run’), Joanna Brouk (‘The Nymph Rising,’ ‘Calling the Sailor’), Laurel Halo (‘Rome Theme III’ et ‘Hyphae’) et Rosalía (‘De Plata’).
Portuguese actor Tiago Rodrigues crossed paths with the Belgian company TG Stan at the age of twenty. There, he developed his acting, his writing for the theatre, and his taste for the collective. As an author and director, he founded the company Mundo Perfeito with Magda Bizarro in 2003 before becoming director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon from 2015 to 2021. Combining true stories and fiction and weaving together the intimate and the political, Tiago Rodrigues’s shows are deeply influenced by the idea of writing with and for the actors, and by his quest for a transformation of our conscience through the tools of theatre. His goal? To bring us together to question our world thanks to the power of the words, of the bodies, and of the imagination of the spectators. He currently serves as director of the Festival d’Avignon, an institution he knows well, having presented several shows there, including Antony and Cleopatra in 2015, Sopro in 2017, The Cherry Orchard in 2021, and By heart and Dans la mesure de l’impossible in 2023.
Freud Playhouse is located in Macgowan Hall on the UCLA campus at 245 Charles E. Young Dr. East, Los Angeles, CA 90095. From Hilgard Avenue enter the east side of campus at Wyton Drive. Make an immediate right turn onto Charles E. Young Dr. East, and signs will direct you to parking structure 3. From the ground level of structure 3, enter the underpass (or from the street level, cross Charles E. Young Dr. North and proceed down steps). Walk straight alongside Melnitz Hall and Macgowan Hall. Turn left at the plaza, and proceed to the courtyard of the theater.
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