Ruído
Ruído
Raquel S.
Lara Sousa
We can’t see everything that exists. We fitted time into hours, minutes, years; distances in centimeters, miles, lightyears. We invented gods so we don’t have unanswered questions. Somewhere – way beyond the blue we call “sky” – stars are born and die, black holes form and collide, and we try to describe them; there are small defects almost as old as the big bang, that created waves that still propagate in space-time, and we don’t notice them in our daily lives. How can we think about these massive and complicated questions in our daily lives – that seem so short, so fast?
Ruído (Noise) is a scientific difusion piece from Noitarder, created for planetariums, about gravitational waves. Raquel S. studied Philosophy, so she asked very abstract questions. Lara, her sister, is a cosmologist – a very special kind of astrophysicist -, and always asked very concrete questions. When Lara invited Raquel to write a theatre play about her investigation project, they started sharing questions, trying to ask better questions together.
Available
2025
Portuguese
978-989-33852-3
Drama
Noitarder
Raquel S.
Is a theatre director and playwright born in 1986 in Monção. She studied Philosophy and Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies. She is based in Porto. In 2018, she founded Noitarder, where she wrote and directed several plays. She was one of the selected playwrights in École des Maîtres 2020, the first edition dedicated to playwrights, where she wrote Carne, published in Portugal, translated to French and Italian and presented in Portugal, France, Belgium and Italy. She directed and wrote INVASÃO! for Teatro Experimental do Porto, and Texto, for Festival dos Canais, in Teatro Aveirense, published in 2024 by Húmus and Teatro Nova Europa. She also wrote Maráia Quéri, by Romeu Costa and Festa para um and Fico em Silêncio sempre que posso, by António Júlio, among other texts. She started working in theatre in TUP – Teatro Universitário do Porto, where she wrote and/or directed several plays.
She also writes essays, texts for short films and independent fanzines. She works also as a dramaturgist, researching and collaborating dramaturgically in theatre and dance projects. She was the assistant to the artistic direction of FITEI 2019. She chaired several post-show talks in different contexts. She worked as outside eyes for different artists and as a local mentor for Future Laboratory in CAMPUS – Paulo Cunha e Silva. She teaches Dramaturgy.