“Countless Voices” is a theatre show inspired and informed by the experience of hearing voices.
For those who haven’t lived through the experience of hearing voices, it is difficult to put themselves in the place of those who do. In an attempt to lessen this difficulty, we have tried to get closer to that reality by, throughout the whole of the creative process, listening and questioning those that live with it, as well as imagining what circumstances in our own life experiences would allow us to understand what the sensorial experience of hearing voices that other people don’t hear might be.
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Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo | Coimbra
25-28 November 2021 | 9:30pm and 4:00 pm
Age rating | 12+
Running time | 1h45
Tickets | €10 / €5 student discount, ≥65 years old, theatre professionals and amateurs, science professionals
Throughout the centuries, theatre has portrayed the human experience in its most diverse aspects. As a collective art, it results from the gathering of a diversity of artistic visions, which we purposely exacerbated in constructing this show. Therefore, the scenes that constitute it result from a multiplicity of voices and reflect different perspectives and sensitivities towards this phenomenon. The intimate discourses of these inner voices, and of those who hear them, appear here in leading roles, in a fiction inspired by realities that are often beyond us.
The diversity of experiences within the universe of people who hear voices is surprising. Inner voices, outer voices, with a negative or positive inclination, insulting, flattering, wise, verbose, interspersed, whispered, distant, known, unknown, foreign, direct, in second or third person, of living people, of dead people, religious voices, worldly voices, voices that can be seen, voices of children, of adults, transforming voices. The perceived limits to what we call reality are challenged by the many dimensions of this phenomenon.
We hope to provide our visiting audience with an intense experience related to the experience of hearing voices and, above all, to open the door to reflection and to a broader discussion of this subject.
Discussion and Ideas Ana Teresa Santos, Andreia Fernandes*, Arianna Angioli**, Francisca Moreira, Joana Ferrajão*, Mafalda Canhola, Mário Montenegro, Nuno Geraldo, Rita Alcaire, Sílvia Santos
Playwright Andreia Fernandes*, Joana Ferrajão*, Mário Montenegro, Nuno Geraldo
Direction Mário Montenegro
Cast Ana Teresa Santos (Cristina, Lídia, voices), Mafalda Canhola (Íris, voices), Nuno Geraldo (Francisco, Gabriel, uncle, voices), Sílvia Santos (Paula, Natércia, penitent, voices), Isilda Sanches (Voice)
Original Soundtrack Rita Redshoes
Original Soundtrack and Sound Design Marcelo dos Reis
Audio Installation Sílvio Correia Santos
Lighting Design and Technical Direction Danilo Pinto
Set and Costume Design Pedro Andrade
Graphic Support Joana Corker
Executive Production Francisca Moreira
Production Assistance Arianna Angioli**
Hair Design Carlos Gago | Ilídio Design
Translation Susana Pires***
Promotional video Tiago Cerveira
Video record João Cunha – STUDIO
Cientific Consultancy Celina Vilas-Boas, Nuno Faleiro, Rita Alcaire, Tiago Pires Marques
Interviewers Celina Vilas-Boas, Maria Dias, Tiago Pires Marques
In partnership with
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Movimento Ouvir Vozes Portugal
Rádio Aurora – A Outra Voz
With the support of
Direção-Geral das Artes no âmbito do Programa de Apoio em Parceria – Arte e Saúde Mental
Câmara Municipal de Coimbra
A Escola da Noite
Diário de Coimbra
Ilídio Design Cabeleireiros
MAFIA – Federação Cultural de Coimbra
Rádio Universidade de Coimbra
Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo
Our heatfelt thank you to everyone that contributed to the project with testimony about their experience, as well as to Carina Carvalhais Matos, Catarina Moita, Fátima Martins, Filipe Maia e Carmo, Nádia Rodrigues, Pedro Renca, Raquel Carvalho, Xico Moreira
*Intern of Estudos Artísticos from FLUC
**Intern from Pisa University
***Translation Intern from FLUC
- Projects
- Hearing voices
- News
- CES promotes first roundtable of the Hearing Voices Project
- Call - Hearing Voices Project
- Can You Hear Me? | Audio Installation from the Hearing Voices Project
- Installation art "Can you hear me?"
- New text of the Hearing Voices Project published in P3
- First podcasts by Rádio Aurora for the Hearing Voices Project
- Another text on the Hearing Voices project published by P3
- Hearing Voices Project
- Project ‘Hearing Voices’ selected by DGArtes*
- Hearing Voices Project | Newspiece published in P3
- Hearing Voices Project | Newspiece published in P3
- Second article from project Hearing Voices published in P3
- Impact evaluation of "Countless Voices" and "Morpheus and Apnea"
- "Countless Voices", from tomorrow at TCSB
- Marionet in the magazine Rua Larga
- Casting Call
- Augmented Reality, an article by Mário Montenegro in P3
- The video for the round-table promoted by CES is now available on-line
- Art Studies' students' presentations
- Clipping
- Para combater o estigma, a Marionet estreia uma peça sobre pessoas que ouvem vozes [Público Online]
- Marionet estreia espetáculo [Diário de Coimbra]
- "Vozes sem Conta" [Diário de Coimbra]
- "Vozes sem Conta" [Diário de Coimbra]
- Para combater o estigma, a Marionet criou uma peça sobre pessoas que ouvem vozes [Público]
- “Vozes Sem Conta” pela Marionet [Diário As Beiras]
- "Estás a Ouvir-me?" [Diário de Coimbra]