Atrás da Felicidade

TITLE
Atrás da Felicidade

AUTHORS

Beatriz Boleto, Carolina Costa Andrade, Inês Dias, Maria José Pessoa, Mário Montenegro

SYNOPSIS

‘Behind Happiness’ is the third volume of the Marionet Collection, which brings together a series of theatre plays produced by our company and which has found its publishing home at Edições Húmus. The text chosen to continue this series deals with the theme of rheumatic diseases  and was part of the show of the same name, which premiered on 12 march 2025 at Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo in Coimbra

 

This book is on sale at Marionet, from Monday to Friday (9:30am-1pm / 2:30pm-6pm), for €10.

AVAILABILITY
Available

YEAR
2026

YEAR OF FIRST EDITION
2026

LANGUAGE
Portuguese

ISBN
978-989-927-594-2

TYPOLOGY
Drama

PUBLISHER
Edições Húmus

biography

Mário Montenegro

Mário Montenegro was born in 1970, in Porto. He is a stage director, actor, playwright, researcher, and professor. He is a founding member and artistic director of Marionet, where he directed 53 shows and regularly intervenes as both actor and playwright. He has published the plays “Revolução dos Corpos Celestes” (MAFIA, 2006), “Encontro em Possível” (CETUP, 2006), “A Expressão das Emoções” and “LED” (Coimbra University Press, 2018), “Oxymoron, between Solstices and Equinoxes” (Húmus/Marionet, 2025), as well as two translations, “Sr. de Chimpanzé” by Jules Verne (Marionet, 2010) and “Cálculo” by Carl Djerassi (Coimbra University Press, 2011). As a researcher, he is an integrated member of CEIS20 – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra and is interested in the intersections between Performing Arts and Science.