“Three Lefty Hours” was the first production of Marionet. It’s the result of a co-production with Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente and constituted the debut of Daniil Kharms (1905 – 1942), a Russian writer from the beginning of the 20th century, on a Portuguese stage. Kharms is the author of a vast range of writings in a peculiar style, and most of his work was forbidden in Stalinist Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. His texts began to emerge only in the second half of the 20th century.

Aware of the importance of Daniil Kharms writings in the world of literature, Marionet wanted to contribute to its diffusion within Portuguese borders. For that reason, and together with the show Three Lefty Hours, a book with the same name was published, containing the texts by Daniil Kharms used in the show, translated by Júlio Henriques, who is also responsible for an introduction to the writer and his universe also included in the book.

“Three Lefty Hours” has for skeleton 14 short texts by the early 20th century Russian writer Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) grouped in a small chapter of the Great Encyclopedia of Human Stupidity.