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  • 3rd Series, nr. 2 (2023)

    The second issue of the 3rd series of Sinais de Cena - Performing Arts and Theatre Studies Journal contains a Thematic Dossier dedicated to Puppet Theatre and Animated Forms. It also includes articles on various studies about theater, an interview with João Brites, a section dedicated to stage photographer Alípio Padilha, critiques of shows, and reviews of and about performing arts.

    Contributors to this issue:

    Afonso Becerra | Ana Clara Santos | Ana Mota Ferreira | Andresa Fresta Marques | Ariana Sofia Galamba | Beatriz Catarino | Carolina Campanela | Catarina Firmo | Cláudia Madeira | Emília Costa | Fábio Henrique Nunes Medeiros | Filipe Figueiredo | Francesca Rayner | Georges Banu | Héctor Briones | Jenaro Meléndrez Chas | João Maria André | José Pedro Sousa | Manel Bilro | Marcondes Gomes Lima | Maria João Brilhante | Mariana Rhormens | Marta Brites Rosa | Massimo Millella | Paula Gomes Magalhães | Pedro Manuel | Rafael Masotti

  • 3rd series, nr. 1 (2022)

    This issue begins the third series of the journal Sinais de Cena, which in a new look and format will continue to be committed to the dissemination of scientific works in the field of theater studies and performing arts, also focusing on theater criticism.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Ana Clara Santos | Anabela Mendes | António Figueiredo Marques | Catarina Firmo | Emília Costa | Filipe Figueiredo | Filomena Chiaradia | Gustavo Vicente | Leonor Madureira | Luísa Pimenta Figueiredo | Manoel Prazeres | Maria Carneiro | Maria Filomena Louro | Marie-Amélie Robilliard | Marina Campos Magalhães | Marta Brites Rosa | Nathalie Brunetti Cassis | Ohanna Pereira | Patrícia Anthony | Paulo Ribeiro Baptista | Raquel Montez Raimundo | Ricardo Correia | Sílvia Raposo | Thiago Arrais | Vítor Lemos | William P. Rougle.

  • 2nd series, nr. 5 (2021)

    In the index of this issue we find, in addition to several essays dedicated to the making and thinking of contemporary theater (in the Applied Studies section), a Thematic Dossier dedicated to Fernando Pessoa and the Performing Arts, feeding the curious transhistorical dialogue that this author (still) establishes with contemporary dramaturgy.

     

    Featured authors: Anabela Mendes | André Oliveira Baptista | Armando Nascimento Rosa | Catarina Firmo | Catarina Neves | Cosimo Chiareli | Diana Acosta Rippe | Emília Costa | Filipa Freitas | Filipe Figueiredo | Gisela Dória | Gustavo Vicente | Isabella Mangani | Jerónimo Pizarro | José Maria Vieira Mendes | Laura Rozas Letelier | Leonor Madureira | Luís Filipe Soares | Maria João Brilhante | Ricardo Boléo | Roberta Rossi | Rodrigo Xavier | Rui Pina Coelho | Teresa Faria | Vagner de Souza Vargas | Zeca Carvalho

  • 2nd series, nr. 4 (2020)

    The 2020 issue is dedicated to the discipline "Practice as Research" and contains the participation of several national and international authors. In addition to several essays, critics of shows and reviews on performing arts, this issue highlights a long interview with actor and director Pedro Gil and a portfolio dedicated to the historic theatre photographer José Marques.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandra Balona | Ana Lúcia Brasil Malecha | Ana Pais | Anabela Mendes | Carlos Manuel Oliveira | Cátia Faísco | Christine Zurbach | Cláudia Galhós | Cláudia Madeira | Daniela Salazar | Emília Costa | Eunice Gonçalves Duarte | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Filipe Figueiredo | Francesca Rayner | Ivana Menna Barreto | Joana Pajuelo Alves | Márcia Regina Rodrigues | Paula Gomes Magalhães | Paula Varanda | Pauline Le Boulba | Paulo Esteireiro | Pedro Gil | Rogério Barros | Rui Pina Coelho | Sílvia Pinto Coelho | Vítor Lemos

  • 2nd series, nr. 3 (2018)

    The 2018 issue is dedicated to the theme «Theories of Criticism», with the participation of several international and national critics, such as José Maria Vieira Mendes, Francesca Rayner, Luiz Fernando Ramos, Diana Damian-Martin, José Alberto Ferreira and Gustavo Vicente, between others. In addition to several essays on performing arts, this issue includes a long interview with the dancer and choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas and a portfolio dedicated to the scenographic work of malavoadora.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandra Balona | Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Anabela Mendes | André Paes Leme | António Baía Reis | Avra Sidiropoulou | Bene Martins | Bruno Schiappa | Catarina Firmo | Cátia Faísco | Diana Damian Martin | Emília Costa | Filipe Figueiredo | Francesca Rayner | Francisco Marques | Guilherme Filipe | Gustavo Vicente | José Alberto Ferreira | José Maria Vieira Mendes | Lara Barbosa Couta | Luiz Fernando Ramos | Marthins Machado | Nara Keiserman | Paula Magalhães | Rui Cintra | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Sergio Lo Gatto | Teresa Faria

  • 2nd series, nr. 2 (2017)

    The 2017 issue is dedicated to the theme «Theatrical Genetics», a discipline of Theatre Studies with little expression in Portuguese academia still. The various theoretical articles, performance reviews and book reviews of and about theatre continue to map the incredible diversity of the performing arts in the contemporary scene. Emphasis on a long interview with the director and filmmaker Jorge Silva Melo, Portfolio dedicated to the 40 years of activity of Teatro Aberto, a tribute by Maria Helena Serôdio to the work of the playwright and historian Luiz Francisco Rebello and an analysis of the creative process of Teatro O Bando by Juarez Guimaraes Dias.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandre Pieroni Calado | Ana Campos | Ana Clara Santos | Ana Rita Figueira | Anabela Mendes | Antonio Guedes | Carlos Pitella | Catarina Firmo | Catarina Neves | Claudio Castro Filho | Danielle Ávila Small | Emília Costa | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Fátima Saadi | Filipe Figueiredo | Francesca Rayner | Francisco Luís Parreira | Jorge Palinhos | Juarez Guimarães Dias | Maria Clara Ferrer | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Brilhante | Paula Magalhães | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Teresa Faria

  • 2nd series, nr. 1 (2016)

    The first issue of the 2nd series is dedicated to the theme «Theatre and Memory» and presents several essays by national and international theorists and artists, with special emphasis on the reflections of researcher and teacher Carol Martin, Joana Craveiro, artistic director of Teatro do Vestido , an interview with Mónica Calle and a tribute to Georg Büchner. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Ana Pais | Anabela Mendes | Béatrice Piccon-Vallin | Bruno Schiappa | Carol Martin | Catarina Firmo | Christine Zurbach | Daniele Ávila Small | Emília Costa | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Filipe Figueiredo | Françoise Decroisette | Graça dos Santos | Gustavo Vicente | Joana Craveiro | José da Costa | José Pedro Serra | José Pedro Sousa | José Sasportes | Maria João Brilhante | Marta Lança | Nicolás Barbosa | Paula Magalhães | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda

  • Nr. 22 (December 2014)

    In the twenty-second issue of Sinais de Cena we find together – in the thematic dossier of this issue – the communications that were presented at the colloquium "The feminine in theatre", which, on the initiative of the Center for Theatre Studies, took place at University of Lisbon’s School of Arts and Humanities in March 2014. Includes Portfolio dedicated to the Alkantara Festival. While Applied Studies make us reflect on the body and dance through the communications presented at the meeting organized by CET – Present Body: New Discourses on the Body in the Performing Arts in Portugal –, News from the Outside takes us in brief " trips" through Italy and Guinea, talking about shows of clear social and political intervention, while news come from Paris about the Autumn Festival. This issue includes an interview with Madalena Victorino. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Ana Pais | Anabela Pereira | Andreia Brito Silva | Cláudia Sales Oliveira | Daniel Tércio | Emília Costa | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Fabrizio Deriu | Fernando Machado Silva | Francesca Rayner | Gustavo Vicente | José Camões | Judite Lopes | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria José Fazenda | Maria Virgílio Cambraia Lopes | Marta Brites Rosa | Né Barros | Rita Gisela Martins de Azevedo | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Sílvia Pinto Coelho | Teresa Faria

  • Nr. 21 (June 2014)

    In the twenty-first issue of Sinais de Cena, as has been traced in its editorial direction, the Thematic Dossier is dedicated to the award of the Critics’ Prize. Photography is the artistic subject that has been animating the OPSIS project, directed by Maria João Brilhante at the Theatre Studies Centre (CET) and which offers us, in the Portfolio of this issue, a precious collection of images that served as an exhibition at University of Lisbon’s School of Arts and Humanities. Photographs, as well as images of posters, drawings and engravings, compose the iconographic material used by Paula Magalhães to – in the Loose Archives section – recall one of the great successes of fair theatre: O processo do rasga. In the Applied Studies section, José Gabriel López Antuñano draws an important geography of new aesthetic forms in contemporary Europe and Anabela Mendes recalls the meanings and consequences of Heiner Müller's writing. International and artistic crossing is also the subject of a workshop – with André Lepecki and Vera Mantero – that Paula Caspão gives us a careful evocation. In Applied Studies, the article on the Cassandra Project stands out. Includes interview with Tiago Rodrigues. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Anabela Mendes | Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Emília Costa | Elisabeth C. | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Joana d'Eça Leal | João Carneiro | Jorge Palinhos | José Gabriel López Antuñano | Luís Mestre | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Brilhante | Paula Caspão | Paula Magalhães | Rita Martins | Rodrigo Francisco | Rui Pina Coelho | Samuel Silva | Sebastiana Fadda | Vera Santos

  • Nr. 20 (December 2013)

    In the twentieth issue of Sinais de Cena, due to the journal's connection to the Centre for Theatre Studies, this issue of the journal includes some reflections on the work that the CET has been promoting, which is why the thematic Dossier is dedicated to it. In the various articles that compose it, it is possible to follow some of the modalities of the research work that theatre has been encouraging from different points of view - theoretical, historical, philological and analytical - proving the potential of the scientific field that is Theatre Studies. and remembering the path that – for them – the School of Arts and Humanities has been taking. Memories of Porto occupy, in this issue, the Loose archive, which recovers, through the research and writing of Daniel Rosa, the memory of 19th century Porto’s theatre district. And there are also memories of theater in the city of Porto that the Portfolio brings us when recalling the trajectory of the company that António Pedro directed – Teatro Experimental do Porto – presented here by Rui Pina Coelho. From an essayistic perspective, Applied Studies bring us testimonies about opera in the last twenty years in Portugal (by Nuno Fidalgo) and about 19th century theatrical music (in na essay by Isabel Novais), to which is added a reflection on the experience of a "revisitation" to the Heiner Müller Quartet highlighted here by Anabela Mendes. Also in this section, Sebastiana Fadda, based on a demanding conceptual apparatus, focuses on the show Chão de Água, by Teatro da Terra. Includes interview with Norberto Barroca. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alejandro Karasik | Alexandra Balona | Ana Campos | Anabela Mendes | Bruna Antonelli | Christine Zurbach | Daniel Rosa | Emília Costa | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Filipa Freitas | Francesca Rayner | Isabel Novais Gonçalves | João Dionísio | José Pedro Sousa | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Brilhante | Marie Plantin | Miguel Falcão | Nuno Fidalgo | Rui Pina Coelho | Sara Figueiredo Costa | Sebastiana Fadda

  • Nr. 19 (June 2013)

    In the nineteenth issue of Sinais de Cena, the article by Luís Gameiro (1867–1943) can be highlighted in Loose archive – which recalls the theatrical pedagogy of António Pinheiro (1867–1943), while in the thematic dossier the reasons why the jury of the Critics' Award are invoked to justify the distinctions awarded. This issue includes Portfolio dedicated to Patrícia Portela's artistic career. The Applied Studies section is, in this issue, the one that collects the greatest number of contributions, although with a very different essayistic orientation: Glória Bastos inventories and evaluates current perspectives on theatre for children; Filipe Figueiredo questions the condition of theater photography; Christine Zurbach studies the theatre translation that Luiz Francisco Rebello practiced; Arthur E. A. Belloni makes an argument around the artifice of the contemporary scene; and Sílvia Laureano Costa analyzes the trajectory of Almada Negreiros’ text – Deseja-se mulher – from its writing to its passing through the prior censorship exam and its scenic recreation by Fernando Amado, in 1963, at Casa da Comédia. Includes interview with Joana Craveiro. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Ana Pais | Arthur E.A. Belloni | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Emília Costa | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Filipe Figueiredo | Glória Bastos | João Carneiro | Jorge Louraço Figueira | Jorge Palinhos | Luís Gameiro | Maria Helena Serôdio | Ricardo Fonseca | Rui Monteiro | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Sergio Lo Gatto | Sílvia Laureano Costa

  • Nr. 18 (December 2012)

    Fulfilling its generous research and questioning agenda in the field of theatre, the journal Sinais de Cena offers, in this eighteenth issue, original and important investigations into the History of Theatre in Portugal, along with considerations about the present scene – and not only removed from the border – when seen and evaluated in a reflective and critical way. In this sense, essays on the Baquet theatre can be found in the Loose archive; In the Applied Studies section we read another historical evocation of theatre in Portugal that brings us the precious discovery – by Guilherme Filipe – of Lisboa em 1850. Another investigation, which recovers and evaluates important traits of the Theatre History in Portugal, is brought to this same section by Filipe Figueiredo, on scene photography. From another side of the country – from its interior, Fundão – comes an expressive photographic documentation on the work that Nuno Pino Custódio has been developing with the mask and the streamlining of the actor's work, inspired by the commedia dell'arte in its Estação Teatral, occupying the Portfolio section here. Another vast discussion is reproduced through the Thematic Dossier, which results from a selection of papers presented to a colloquium promoted by the Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon’s School of Arts and Humanities in conjunction with a European theatre project – Prospero. Includes interview with João Mota. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Ana Campos | Carole Guidicelli | Christine Zurbach | Didier Plassard | Elsa Rita dos Santos | Emília Costa | Eunice Tudela de Azevedo | Filipe Figueiredo | Francesca Rayner | Guilherme Filipe | Laurinda Ferreira | Liliana Coutinho | Maria Carneiro | Maria Helena Serôdio | Marisa Fernández Falcon | Martina Mašlárová | Miguel Falcão | Nuno Pino Custódio | Rui Pina Coelho | Samuel Silva | Sebastiana Fadda | Stat Miller

  • Nr. 17 (June 2012)

    This seventeenth issue includes a text by Christine Zurbach that evaluates precisely a memory show that CENDREV created to remember Mário Barradas – Café Mário. In two other sections, the outstanding work of Luiz Francisco Rebello, who left us in December 2011, is evoked. We remember him as an excellent historian and essayist of Portuguese theatre (in Applied Studies) and as a playwright of great artistic competence, who was able to courageously approach fracturing themes in his inspired dramaturgies, as Sebastiana Fadda rightly points out at the opening of the Portfolio. In Applied Studies Daniel Rosa brings us news about the revelation of Japanese theatre in Portugal, at the beginning of the 20th century, with the presence of Saddayakko (or Sada Yacco) and Otojiro Kawakami. On the condition of the critics, Elisabeth Costa resumes a brief foray in the Loose archive, recalling the brilliant and bellicose Joaquim Madureira, who signed his theater reviews as Braz Burity. In the case of the Thematic Dossier, the opinions on the attribution of the Critic's Awards are included. In Applied Studies, Gustavo Vicente talks about the new stage dramaturgy in “Geração sem Fronteiras”. A more elaborate theoretical reflection is brought here by Anabela Mendes, which opens ways to questioning about “the cognitive parameters applied to theatre and other arts’ audiences”, for a Sociology of the Performing Arts. Includes interview with Bruno Bravo. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Ana Bigotte Vieira | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Anabela Mendes | Cecília Ferreira | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Daniel Rosa | Daniele Avila Small | Elisabeth Costa | Emília Costa | Francesca Rayner | Gustavo Vicente | Isabel Pinto | João Carneiro | José Alves de Carvalho | Luiz Carlos Oliveira | Maria Helena Serôdio | Marta Brito Cunha | Miguel Castro Caldas | Miguel Honrado | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Susana Chicó

  • Nr. 16 (December 2011)

    In this sixteenth issue, the archive highlights the history of the construction of the National Theatre in Porto. In the Thematic Dossier, the relations – increasingly attractive for scientists and theatre people – between science and theatre are questioned. In Applied Studies we can read the declaration of an aesthetic of its own that António Branco identifies in his article on “poor theatre”, the theoretical elaboration that Inês Lago weaves around Deleuze and Carmelo Bene and the philosophical reflection that Arthur E.A. Belloni develops about the subject in contemporary theatre. João Pedro Vaz also stands out in the Portfolio, revealing how, in Minho in 2004, five mayors (from Monção, Melgaço, Paredes de Coura, Valença and Vila Nova de Cerveira) decided to launch a theatre project such as Comédias do Minho. In Applied Studies, the relevance of the article by Joaquim Benite is underlined – a man of unusual competence and dynamism, former theatre critic, director, creator of the Campolide Theatre Group, current director of the Almada Theatre Company and notable director of the Almada International Theatre Festival. Includes an interview with Fernando Gomes. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | António Branco | Arthur E. A. Belloni | Carl Djerassi | Cecília Ferreira | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | David Luís Casimiro | Emília Costa | Eva-Sabine Zehelein | Filomena Louro | Francesca Rayner | Inês Lago | Isabel Aleixo | João Pedro Vaz | José Alves de Carvalho | Luís Soares Carneiro | Luiz Carlos Oliveira | Maria Helena Serôdio | Mário Montenegro | Marta Bonito Cunha | Teresa Faria | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Susana Chicó

  • Nr. 15 (June 2011)

    In the fifteenth issue of Sinais de Cena, the statements that justify the Critics Prize that the APCT jury awarded to the International Festival of Puppets and Animated Forms (FIMFA) and to João Paulo Seara Cardoso (the brilliant creator of Teatro das Marionetas do Porto), and to which are added the reasons that moved the same jury to award Special Mentions to Miguel Guilherme (for his performance in O Senhor Puntila e o seu criado Matti), to the cast of As Boas Raparigas (in the show Mulheres Profundas/Animais Superficiais) and Luís Castro / Karnart for recreating Raúl Brandão's universe in Húmus. In the reflection on the show, curious transversalities fit in this issue: those that relate the scene to the literary text, as is done in the Loose archive about translations from French in the 19th century for the Archivo teatral collection. In Applied Studies, it is still the strength of the texts for theatre that are listed, whether in dramaturgical and scenic theorization, or in the meeting that had a mobilizing address in São Luiz at the end of last year, or in the evocation of a poetic drama that Ana Luísa Amaral woven around Prospero / Paulo Eduardo Carvalho. But it is in the Portfolio that a larger set of images is offered, corresponding to a “scene photography workshop”, conducted by Pedro Soares. Includes interview with José Luís Ferreira. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Ana Campos | Ana Clara Santos | Ana Pais | Ana Sereno | Anabela Mendes | Bruno Tackels | Constança Carvalho Homem | Cristina Guerra | Diego Barros | Eugénia Vasques | Filipe Figueiredo | João Carneiro | José Pedro Serra | Laurinda Ferreira | Maria Helena Serôdio | Mickael de Oliveira | Mónica Guerreiro | Nara Waldemar Kaiserman | Nelson Guerreiro | Paula Magalhães | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Samuel Silva | Sebastiana Fadda

  • Nr. 14 (December 2010)

    In the fourteenth issue of Sinais de Cena we can highlight several articles, among them the one reproduced in Applied Studies dedicated to the dramaturgy of Jaime Salazar Sampaio (1925-2010). In this fixation of what is being done on stage, in this issue of the journal, we were able to count on the precious collaboration of the photographer Jorge Gonçalves, who offers us a remarkable testimony of the New Portuguese Dance, in Portfolio. Director José Caldas also tells us about the theatre that is made and studied in Portugal when he points out – in the Applied Studies section – theatre for children and youth that is being made among us. In the Thematic Dossier and the Loose Archive, the questioning of the reasons and theatrical consequences of the establishment of the Republic in Portugal is underlined. In the first case, legislation, revue, cinema and women in the theatre favored by the Republic are analyzed, thus implying a general assessment of their impact on the performing and screen arts, on the other hand, in the Loose Archive the work was mainly to collect fundamental texts on the theatre that the republican ethos inspired. This issue includes an interview with Orlando Worm. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Bigotte Vieira | Ana Campos | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Ana Pais | António Braz Teixeira | Christine Zurbach | Elisabeth R. Azevedo | Fernando Claudino | Fernando Matos Oliveira | Francesca Rayner | Hélder Westerlain | João Costa Dias | Jorge Geraldo | Jorge Gonçalves | Jorge Seabra | José Alves de Carvalho | José Caldas | José Pedro Serra | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Maria Helena Serôdio | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Samuel Silva | Sebastiana Fadda | Stat Miller | Susana Chicó | Vanessa Lourenço

  • Nr. 13 (June 2010)

    In the thirteenth issue of Sinais de Cena, the journal maps out the field of Theatre Studies and the performing arts in Portugal in three important aspects: it promotes theoretical, critical and historical research (both in the “Applied Studies” section, and in the “Loose archive”), encourages the analysis of performances, books and online editions and guides the reader’s attention in two vital directions: on the one hand, looking at Portuguese preferences, in an attention to the artists interviewed or recalling them through a notebook of images (“Portfolio”); on the other hand, looking for a dialogue with realities from outside that are brought here to the section “News from outsider the country”. And this bifocality is also repeated in the “Thematic Dossier”, on the Prize (and Special Mentions) of Critics Prize regarding Portuguese Theatre - Jorge Silva Melo and Special Mentions for costume designer Bernardo Monteiro and director and actress Mónica Calle. Includes a Portfolio dedicated to Mário Barradas and an interview with Nuno Carinhas. In the evocation of theatrical realities in other parts of the world, the article by Tinterri, which tells us about Italian futurism, stands out. But another important crossing (now interarts) still inhabits this issue of the journal: the attention to the “film” by Tiago Guedes about The Merchant of Venice, directed by Ricardo Pais at Teatro Nacional de São João, and an article about the choreographies of Joana Providência. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alessandro Tinterri | Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Anabela Mendes | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Diana Dionísio | Fernando Matos Oliveira | Filipa Malva | Francesca Rayner | Gonçalo Furtado | Hélder Wasterlain | João Carneiro | José Alberto Ferreira | Lidia Kosovski | Lucas Cureau | Maria Helena Serôdio | Marta Oliveira | Micaela Barbosa | Nuno Carinhas | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Silvina Pereira

  • Nr. 12 (December 2009)

    In this twelfth issue of the journal, we find testimonies and reflections on what has been the work being done in Portuguese theatre and in theatre research, covering different performances and collecting important echoes of these practices. Articles dedicated to Portuguese theatre personalities who have since passed away, such as Isabel Alves Costa, with whom Sinais de Cena collaborated, stand out. From a vast collection of communications and conferences from the 52nd Annual Conference of the FIRT-IFTR (Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche Théâtrale – International Federation for Theatre Research), the thirteen themes that focused on censorship in Portugal are collected in the thematic dossier of this issue. , spanning a temporal arc that goes from the 19th century to 1974. Included in Applied Studies is the investigation that the classicists from University of Lisbon’s School of Arts and Humanities developed around Greek theatre regarding the general theme of this congress, bringing to us interesting reflections on the theater of Aeschylus, Euripides and Aristophanes . The Portfolio brings together images of shows that the novelist and playwright Hélia Correia has “provoked”, either with original pieces or with various adaptations, and which Ana Raquel Fernandes presents in a shortly introductory text. It includes an interview with Gonçalo Amorim and a Loose archive about wandering companies in Portugal in the 19th century in Portugal and an essay on carioca musical theatre. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Cabrera | Ana Campos | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Ana Maria de Bulhões-Carvalho | Ana Raquel Fernandes | Bruno Schiappa | Constança Carvalho Homem | Cristina Abranches Guerreiro | Glória Bastos | Graça dos Santos | Guilherme Filipe | Hélder Wasterlain | Hugo Miguel Coelho | Isabel Vidal | José Camões | José Pedro Serra | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Manuel Filho Silva | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João da Rocha Afonso | Maria Mafalda Viana | Maria Virgílio Cambraia Lopes | Marta Brites Rosa | Mickael de Oliveira | Mónica Guerreiro | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Rui Pina Coelho | Silvina Pereira | Sofia Frade

  • Nr. 11 (June 2009)

    In the eleventh issue of Sinais de Cena, a tribute is paid to Augusto Boal (1931-2009). This issue celebrates those who were distinguished by the Critics Prize in 2008: João Brites, who stood out with his creation Saga – Ópera extravagante, among others of his inventive works in the theatre company O bando, Carla Galvão, Nuno Cardoso and Miguel Loureiro, for their inspired creations as performers or directors. The thematic Dossier of this issue is dedicated to all of them. Meanwhile, the issue of violence in the theatre continues to occupy attention in Applied Studies, which collects three more of the papers that were presented in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the 24th Congress of the International Association of Theatre Critics. Includes Portfolio by João Tuna, with photographs TNSJ under the artistic direction of Ricardo Pais. Includes Loose archive about Eça de Queiroz' connection with the theatre. The interview with actress Carmen Dolores stands out in this issue. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Aglika Stefanova | Alejandro Karasik | Alexandra Moreira da Silva | Alexandre Calado | Ana Campos | Ana Carolina Paiva | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Ana Pais | Anabela Mendes | Carmen Dolores | Constança Carvalho Homem | Cristina Guerra | Francesca Rayner | Halima Tahan | Jorge Daniel Chambel Geraldo | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Manabu Noda | Maria Helena Serôdio | Mickael de Oliveira | Miguel Falcão | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda

  • Nr. 10 (December 2008)

    In the tenth issue of Sinais de Cena, a tribute to the theatre critic Carlos Porto (1930-2008) is made. Some of the communications presented at the 24th AICT Congress that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during which a debate on theatre violence took place, are reproduced in the Applied Studies section. The thematic dossier includes texts from the colloquium that APCT organized last July – “Bodies on stage and scenic practices” – in collaboration with the Almada Festival. Also noteworthy is the Portfolio of photographer Ana Pereira. In a scrupulous documentary investigation for Loose archive, Miguel Falcão recalls the important role of Teatro de Semper, under the direction of Gino Saviotti, in what was its great – and only – season between 1958-1959. Includes interview with Miguel Seabra. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Alexander Garner | Aglika Stefanova | Ana Pereira | Brent Meersman | Carmelita Celi | David Edgar | Daniel Tércio | Deepa Punjani | Fernando Guerreiro | Georges Banu | Ian Herbert | Jean-Pierre Han | Joana Capucho | Katayaoun Hosseinzadeh Salmasi | Luís Varela | Manabu Noda | Margareta Sörenson | Maria Helena Serôdio | Mark Brown | Miguel Falcão | Miloš Mistrik | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda

  • Nr. 9 (June 2008)

    In the ninth issue of Sinais de Cena, the prizes awarded by APCT stand out in the Thematic Dossier, on the one hand, contemplating an actress with a well-established career such as Emília Silvestre, a publisher such as Cotovia (which has published an appreciable collection of theatre texts) and a project – Palcos Novos / Palavras Novas (PANOS) – involving highschools; and, on the other hand, “sharing” the Prize between a show about a canonical text by a company with a long and excellent artistic scope, such as Teatro da Cornucópia, and a much more recent one – Primeiros Sintomas – which was driven by a contemporary dramaturgy of shock. The Portfolio presented by Paulo Eduardo Carvalho, which corresponds to a sequence that he studied in depth for his doctoral thesis, stands out, as well as the texto that occupies the Loose Archive, which stems from the master's thesis in Theatre Studies that Paula Magalhães presented to the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon). If the news from outside takes us from New York to Sheffield and Thessaloniki to tell us about already established realities, Applied Studies – which stem from a colloquium organized by the Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon – focuses on Harold Pinter . Includes interview with João Perry. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Bigotte Vieira | Ana Campos | Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Ana Pais | Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes | Catarina Maia | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Daniel Boto | Eduarda Dionísio | Francesca Rayner | Francis Gillen | Maria Helena V. Werneck | João Carneiro | José António Pedrosa | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Brilhante | Mark-Taylor Batty | Marta Brites Rosa | Paula Magalhães | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Vanessa Silva Pereira | Vera Nobre Leitão

  • Nr. 8 (December 2007)

    In the eighth issue of Sinais de Cena are presented the communications brought by colleagues from the International Association of Theatre Critics, which fill out the Thematic Dossier section of this issue and represent forms of interesting debate, bringing together very diverse experiences – in a vast international and intercontinental cartography – and launching clues that can be mobilized around issues related not only to theatre in general, but also, most likely, to think about – and evaluate – the Portuguese artistic reality. Proving, however, how this journal seeks to follow the most diversified lines of acting in theatre, two important contributions from philologists – Burghard Dedner and Luigi Giuliani – are reserved for Applied Studies – who have worked on texts, respectively, by playwrights Georg Büchner and Lope de Vega. From what is being done around the world, the idea that, with classic texts or new dramaturgical formulations, the theatre in New York or Edinburgh serves to interrogate the political reasons that move the world in the days of today. Portfolio contains some relevant information about Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão's theatrical career, seeking to signal her importance as a playwright and translator. Includes interview with Circolando company. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Aleks Sierz | Ana Campos | Ana Pais | Burghard Dedner | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Don Rubin | Donato Loscalzo | Hervé Guay | Ian Herbert | Isabel Alves Costa | Jean-Pierre Han | João Carneiro | João Dionísio | Luigi Giuliani | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Almeida | Maria João Brilhante | Marta Brites Rosa | Marta Costa Dias | Miguel Falcão | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Paulo Filipe Monteiro | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Steve Capra | Yun-Cheol Kim

  • Nr. 7 (June 2007)

    In the seventh issue of Sinais de Cena, the central theme is dedicated to a reflection on criticism. In this sense, the journal asserts itself as an effort of serious investigation, reflection and criticism on the reality of theatre. Of usual reference, the Critic's Awards are once again in the order of themes to which the publication is dedicated. Also worthy of mention in this edition is the interview with Mário Barradas, recalling his diverse, long and important career as a director, actor, translator and decisive modeler of theatrical decentralization among us. The Almada Theater Company is also celebrated here – in the Portfolio – for the extraordinary performance of its Festival. In the Applied Studies section, we highlight the essay by Luiz Francisco Rebello on censorship and the work by Eduardo Pedrozo on the seminal importance of Primeiro Acto – Clube de Teatro em Algés, of which Armando Caldas became a tireless promoter. For Loose archive, Ana Campos revisited the dramaturgy of the 20s of the last century that the magazine De Teatro at that time promoted. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Ana Gabriela Macedo | Ana Pais | Ana Vaz Fernandes | Anabela Mendes | Christine Zurbach | Constança Carvalho Homem | Eduardo Pedrozo | Georges Banu | João Carneiro | Jorge Louraço Figueira | José Alberto Ferreira | Kerri Allen | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Almeida | Maria João Brilhante | Marta Brites Rosa | Mickael Oliveira | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Tatjana Manojlovic | Tiago Porteiro | Vanessa Silva Pereira

  • Nr. 6 (December 2006)

    The sixth issue of Sinais de Cena is dedicated to criticism: the skills required of those who exercise it, the possibilities of real exercise in its various supports and places, the challenge posed to the artistic instances and languages ​​that operate in the sphere of creation and that incite analysis. increasingly demanding (due to the knowledge and techniques that they mobilize), of radiant questioning of the cultural in its most general incidence. From the outside, we are informed about studies and authors that are decrying actuality or persistent questioning, as is the case of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and a questioning about the ways in which theatre works in the Greek polis, occupying articles in the Applied Studies section, where articles by foreign and Portuguese critics are included. There is also a study on one of the most interesting companies in Hungary – Pintér Béla. We are told about theatre in Portugal regarding Ibsen's first reception among us and about Casa da Comédia (for the Loose Archive). Includes an interview with Lúcia Sigalho. Rogério de Carvalho is remembered in the Portfolio. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana Campos | Ana Pais | Christine Zurbach | Christopher Murray | Cláudia Galhós | Constança Carvalho Homem | Daniel Tércio | Donato Loscalzo | Frank Gillen | Ian Shuttleworth | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Maria Helena Serôdio | Maria João Brilhante | Mark Brown | Mónica Guerreiro | Mónica Bense | Nikolai Pesochinsky | Paula Cristina Gomes | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Paulo Trindade | Porter Anderson | Rita Martins | Rui Pina Coelho | Rui Vieira Nery | Sebastiana Fadda | Tiago Bartolomeu Costa

  • Nr. 5 (June 2006)

    The fifth issue of Sinais de Cena highlights in its thematic dossier the exposition of the reasons that led the jury of the Portuguese Association of Theatre Critics to award the Prize and Special Mentions for the previous year. Portfolio brings together a vast set of photographs of shows based on texts by Beckket and lists – exhaustively and in chronological order – Beckett's stagings that were presented in Portugal. In News from outside the country, the Europe Theatre Award, awarded to Harold Pinter and the Congress of the International Association of Theatre Critics stand out, as well as articles on Latin theatre in New York; what was seen in Montréal, Quèbec, as part of the Youth Arts Congress and Festival; the perspective that a Westerner can have of the theatre that is performed in Korea today and an article on Mathew Barney. Applied Studies combine a critical reflection on the work of Fernando Amado and a brief incursion into Beckett's texts. An interview with Fernanda Lapa is included. Critical essays on performances, together with the thematic dossier and academic articles, continue to structure the identity of this publication, aimed at all those interested in the performing arts.

     

    Featured authors: Ana de Carvalho | Catarina Maia | Christina Zurbach | Francesca Rayner | Francesc Massip | Guillermo Heras | Isabel Pinto Carlos | João Carneiro | Luís Dias Martins | Luiz Francisco Rebello | Maria Helena Serôdio | Marta Brites Rosa | Patrice Pavis | Paulo Eduardo Carvalho | Pedro Manuel | Rui Aires Augusto | Rui Pina Coelho | Sebastiana Fadda | Teresa Amado | Tiago Bartolomeu Costa

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