Demons Don't Like Fresh Air | Play
05 August 2024
Ingmar invites some of his closest friends to his house for dinner. An unlikely meeting, given their characteristics, but not an impossible one. During dinner they drink, eat, rejoice and criticise each other. They raise existential questions about each other and about mankind. The dinner goes on with conversations about the uncertainties that each one has in their relationship with the other. Ironic and suspicious, Ingmar tries, with some difficulty, to moderate the effects of the conflict, which is nothing other than: the meaning of life, the depths of the soul, pain, dreams, the deepest secrets that are never revealed to anyone and that lead them to confront themselves in a place inside, agitated by cruel doubts. The rollercoaster of affections. Thought swirling in the delirious emptiness of life. The transformation of being in seemingly impossible encounters. Our weakness in the face of the certainty of the end. The being, in the flesh, of our fears and desires.
DIRECTION Albano Jerónimo and Cláudia Lucas Chéu
TEXT Maria Quintans
ACTORS Luís Puto, Rita Loureiro, Íris Cayate, Maria Ladeira and Ivo Alexandre
CELLIST Eva Aguilar SCENIC DESIGN Albano Jerónimo
COSTUMES Helena Guerreiro
LIGHT DESIGN Rui Monteiro
DRAMATURGY Maria Quintans and Cláudia Lucas Chéu
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Solange Freitas
COMMUNICATION Sara Cavaco
VIDEO Henrique Pina
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Francisco Leone
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Solange Freitas
PHOTOGRAPHY Bruno Simão
SUPPORT Bergman Center and Leopardo Filmes
CO-PRODUCTION Teatro Nacional 21, Casa das Artes Vila Nova de Famalicão and São Luiz Teatro Municipal