Lives in the River

Date27 May 2023

Marionet and MARE-UC come together, for the second time, in CresceRio, a project built to think with school communities about urban rivers and their ecosystems Lives in the River is a show that results from field trips, laboratory analyses and several conversations that researchers, artists and a fourth grade class developed during the last 4 school years. A look that goes from the human being to the humanly invisible.

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Convento São Francisco | Coimbra

May 27th, 2023 | 10am and 11:15am

Age rating | 6+

Running time | approx. 45m

Tickets | Free entry.

Show with Portuguese sign language interpretation.

Playbill

“The Lives of the River” is a show about urban rivers and their ecosystems, created with a fourth grade class from Escola EB1 da Solum Sul, which casts a look from the relationship of people with rivers and what they contain that is invisible to us.

The show is part of the CresceRio Project, an initiative of MARE/ARNET – University of Coimbra, Dept. of Life Sciences in partnership with Marionet, the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro and PROAQUA, which aimed at making known the urban riverside ecosystems, their biodiversity and problems, namely those in the city of Coimbra. In addition to thinking about the contact that the community has with these environments, the development of civic responsibility in their preservation and recovery is a purpose of this project, which was born in 2018 and is already in its second edition.

In the five stories that make up this play we discover the meaning of words that seem invented, a fisherman who doesn’t know where to sit, a meeting of disgruntled aquatic tenants, best friends with a keen appetite and invertebrates that are not satisfied with the life they lead. The human beings? They say they want to enjoy it but end up destroying it.

Production Credits

Artistic Direction and Direction Mário Montenegro

Assistant of Direction Carolina Andrade, Vicente Paredes

Playwright Carolina Andrade, Mário Montenegro, Vicente Paredes

Cast

(Fourt Grade Students of Escola EB1 Solum Sul | Teacher Ana Margarida Silva)

Rio: Um Dicionário de Palavras Estranhas

1, Afonso Costa

2, Maria Inês Faneca

3, Carolina Terra

4, Luísa Renca

Turismo de Natureza

Boga, Francisco Santos

Dona Corbicula, Ana Luísa Pais

Filho Corbicula, Sofia Antunes

Lagostim do Louisiana, Matias Henriques

Achigã, Tiago Carvalho

Conversa Invertebrada

CHI, Maria Dinis Oterelo

OLI, Laura Oliveira

HYD, Inês Palavra

O Condomínio Degradado

Enguia-Europeia, Rita Pires

Barbo-Comum, –

Ruivaco, Artem Kruglicau

Fuinha-dos-Juncos, Maria Leonor Ferreira

Guarda-Rios, Diana Flório

Um agricultor, uma cientista, um pescador e uma fada encontram-se junto a um rio

Agricultor, Miguel Montenegro

Cientista, Daniela Marques

Pescador, Miguel Rocha

Fada, Maria Dinis Oterelo

Wardrobe Laura Corga

Set Design and Image Pedro Andrade

Graphic Support Joana Corker

Lighting Design and Technical Direction Guilherme Pompeu

Portuguese Sign Language Interpretation Associação de Tradutores e Intérpretes de Língua Gestual Portuguesa

Music and Sound Design Marcelo dos Reis, Mário Montenegro

Production Direction Francisca Moreira

Executive Production Carolina Andrade, Vicente Paredes

Communication Carolina Andrade

Photography Francisca Moreira

Video Registry Digital Tailor

Scientific Coordination of the CresceRio Project Maria João Feio

PROJETO CresceRio

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Marionet | Freshwater Ecology Group – MARE/ARNET Universidade de Coimbra | CEIS20 – UC | Universidade de Aveiro | PROAQUA

Projects
CresceRio

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