Rosas de Maio [Roses of May], work conceived by Luísa Sequeira, PhD student in Media Art at the Universidade Lusófona (Porto), was staged on 11th, 12th and 13th November, at Rivoli Theatre's Stage Grand Auditorium.
Rosas de Maio is a rhizomatic creation resulting from research on New Portuguese Letters (1972; 1975), a work by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. The work is based on this seminal work to dramaturgically weave a collection of new developments, creating a hybrid and polysemic show, a place of possibilities to articulate times and fragments, oscillating between the documentary and the performance. It is a constellation play that sets in motion the very materiality of the archive through expanded cinema, crossing and rescuing words and actions of women that throughout history had their speeches censored, torn and erased by the oppressive and patriarchal regime.
