During the month of May, the Municipality of Silves presents several initiatives at the Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório, recognizing the importance of this art in the development of the municipality of Silves.
The theater awaits you!
Discover the program we have reserved for you:
» 14 May 2022
“Those Sad Days”
Company: Teatro Análise de Loulé
Venue: Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório
Time: 21:30
Target audience: M/12
Admission: Free | TMG doors open one hour before each show
Capacity: 150 seats
Synopsis
This piece portrays our Portugal in the late forties. More precisely in the village of Sol Postinho. Aleixo still wandered through the fairs, declaiming here and there his quatrains that were always much admired wherever he went. In the village of Sol Postinho lived a family whose life problems were similar to so many Portuguese scattered from Algarve to Minho. Thus, Rosa Maria, one of the characters in this story set in many sad days of that time, intends to obtain her 4th grade diploma in order to help her poor mother who never fails to emphasize that she is illiterate because she had to take care of three brothers, due to of parents working from dawn to dusk to earn a few measly shields with which to feed the family. Rosa Maria manages to obtain her 4th class diploma, which takes her to Lisbon as a servant for a wealthy family. But here, she was destined to make her days even more bitter. During the course of history, forced prostitution, the colonial war, the imprisonment of Tarrafal, censorship and countless situations that led millions of Portuguese to leave their homeland in exchange for unimaginable sacrifices, lead to each of us You remember something heard many times to several family members who went through those… sad days. But who knows… if in the village of Sol Postinho other sunsets and sunrises will not turn out to be of joy…
» 15 May 2022
“Tell Me Stories”
Company: Byfurcação Teatro
Venue: Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório
Time: 15:00
Target audience: M/3
Admission: Free | TMG doors open one hour before each show
Capacity: 150 seats
Synopsis
What is your favorite story? The cinderela? The Little Red Riding Hood? Sleeping Beauty? Or imagine the story that you always imagined to be told, but that doesn’t exist. Here you will have the opportunity to see, hear and even participate.
This is a show with great imagination where everyone can choose what they want to see.
A story where the audience itself is taken by surprise and impelled to help create it.