Fri 9 Oct Friday 9 October
1 event A performance that gives voice to Camões — from his lyric and epic poetry to his letters — and to the contemporary poets who climbed onto the giant's shoulders and conversed with him, from Sophia de Melo Breyner to José Saramago and Manuel Alegre, performed by Paulo Filipe and guests.
Fri 16 Oct Friday 16 October
1 event On an emblematic bench in Ponta Delgada, where the poet Antero de Quental ended his life, two marginalised brothers await a future that never arrives. The play is a poetic and social portrait of family, abandonment, poverty and hope, questioning what to do with those society lets fall.
Thu 12 Nov Thursday 12 November
1 event Stabat Mater moves the centuries-old iconography of the mother at the foot of the cross into stories of our own time, from a son's pain of living to the cry of a mother who is no longer human. Written and directed by Carlos J. Pessoa, it stars Custódia Gallego and Célia Teixeira at Teatro da Garagem.