THE MAN WHO WAS A SPOON
with Cão Solteiro
“Weirdness implies, in the first place, an intellectual confusion, and secondly, a need to solve it. (…)The moments of weirdness of which that intellectual confusion is a part remind us that the understanding we have of others and of ourselves is never guaranteed,” says Frederico Pedreira in his book An Approach to Weirdness.
Cão Solteiro and Greg Wohead met in Lisbon in 2017 and have, since then, been working together and having conversations on shared interests. These include variations on awkwardness and obscenity, stretched to the limits of the absurd within a possible reality. THE MAN WHO WAS A SPOON is their first direct collaboration.
Creation Cão Solteiro & Greg Wohead
Set design Vasco Araújo
Costume design Mariana Sá Nogueira
Lighting design Daniel Worm d’Assumpção
Sound design Miguel Lucas Mendes
Video Noëlle Georg, Javier Mosqueda
Sewing Teresa Louro, João Natário
Production director and photography Joana Dilão (CS)
Production Mariana Sá Marques (CS)
Diffusion Raquel Bravo (CS)
Press advisory Cláudia Duarte / this is ground control (CS)
Actors Greg Wohead, Paula Sá Nogueira e Tiago Jácome
Special participation
6 march | Rui Dilão
7 march | Bruno Santos
8 march | Manuela Correia
9 march | Frederico Pedreira
Publishing Project
texts (programme) Maria Sequeira Mendes, Nuno Fonseca
images (programme) Mariana Sá Nogueira
residency in co-production O Espaço do Tempo
support Arcalo, Bazar do Vídeo, Junta de Freguesia da Misericórdia, Plataforma285, Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista
co-production Cão Solteiro Teatro, Teatro do Bairro Alto
Acknowledgements André Godinho, João Brandão, Maria Braga, Manuela Correia, Matilde Tomaz, Nuno Tomaz
company financed by República Portuguesa | Cultura – Direcção Geral das Artes and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa