Passed · Sat, 8 Nov 2025
In November, the EmCena project presents the play "Traverser La Riviere Sous La Pluie" by Itinere Collectif, a collective creation directed by Thylda Barès, on November 6 and 7, at 9:30 p.m., in the Mário Primo Auditorium, at the Padre António Macedo Secondary School, in Vila Nova de Santo André, and on November 8, also at 9:30 p.m., in the António Chainho Municipal Auditorium, in Santiago do Cacém.
A fantastic company that returns to us made up of actors from France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Turkey, all trained at the Jacques Lecoq International Theater School.
Duration: 60 min. | M/6
Tickets: €5.00 general public - €3.00 under 21s, over 65s - free for AJAGATO members
Places of Sale:
- Vila Nova de Santo André: capag - 269 751 296 (national landline)
- Santiago do Cacém: António Chainho Municipal Auditorium - 269 750 410 (national landline) - Reservations also through CAPAG
Organization: ajagato - Amigos do Gato Youth Association
Partnership: Santiago do Cacém City Council and Sines City Council
Synopsis: What are we talking about? (Well, actually, we're not even talking...)
There's gunfire in the distance, a group of people flee with almost nothing and come across a river with no bridge. On the other bank, a hut (border? checkpoint? or watchtower?) and armed uniforms (military? militia? guards?). There's gunfire in the distance; we have to cross! On one side, a Belgian grandmother in a suitcase, dragged by her devoted Turkish son; a pregnant British woman, her Norwegian husband and their big Swedish baby.
They will have to find their own solutions; naive, peculiar, bizarre, human. On the other side of the river, two guards do their best to enforce the rules. We also meet the goodwill of a humanitarian, a seriously injured man, a lost tourist and the inevitable reporter. There is no fatality, only circumstances and opportunities, and the means they find together to take advantage of them.
On both banks of this river, they are buffoon-clowns talking to their respective grommelots. They are neither martyrs nor executioners. Just victims, without pathos, but full of hope, full of life, caught up in a situation that has been going on forever.
Auditório Municipal António Chainho, Santiago do CacémTheater 
