2016 - "The Country of Decrees" by Casimiro Simões

Once upon a time there was an imaginary country where all inhabitants would like to be equal in rights ...
A land where the superior national interest, many years ago, dictated that its leader had an exclusive mission, writing decrees, creating and inventing detailed laws, that defended and safeguarded the collective interest ...
In this context of SUBMISSION TO THE LAW, it is natural that the subordinate's personal strength is tamed and manipulated by the boss's legislative force, through an alleged intellectual superiority, characteristic of an autocratic law-maker ...
But one day, in that country located somewhere in space and time, some winds of revolution begin to be felt, and the decrees of the absolute ruler begin to be answered ...







Satire
DURATION: 55 minutes
DIRECTING: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sónia Valente as Serafina
Sílvia Ferrete as Afonsina
Casimiro Simões as Baltasar
Martina Mendes as Young Inhabitant
Ricardo Vinagre as The 1st Statue
Subtle Mafalda as The 2nd Statue
Wilson Subtil as The 3rd Statue
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte

2016 - "My husband that God has" by André Brun

In a succession of entertaining adventures in which the subject of domestic violence is underlying, we get to know the marital problems of Paul, the husband of Anastasia, a man who lives in the constant anxiety of trying to overcome the virtues of his wife's deceased first husband.
















Comedy
DURATION: 55 minutes
DIRECTING: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Paulo
Sara Joaquim as Anastacia 
Sónia Valente as Judite 
Wilson Subtil as Anacleto
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte

2015 - "The Triumph of the Characters" by Casimiro Simões

The Shakespearean text "Romeo and Juliet" serves as basis for the actors to search for the true essence of the Theater, using it as instrument of liberation of the themselves.
In this "process" of discovery, the actors (and their characters) will end up facing various questions of almost impossible response, for example, what is love and what is beauty ...



Experimental play
DURATION: 50 minutes
DIRECTING: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Actor
Marisa Gomes as Actress
Sónia Valente as Director 

2015 - "Scene Zero"

Prologue with two actors that addresses the lack of interest in theatre by the public.

Comedy
DURATION: 7 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as The Public
Sónia Valente as Actress 

2014 - "The Park" by Ricardo Vinagre

The story of a homeless man, someone with a past like any other person, but who, due to the misfortunes of life, was forced to live on the street. One day he meets a young volunteer who helps him to hope again.















Drama
DURATION: 15 minutes
DIRECTION: Sílvia Ferrete
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Carlos
Sara Joaquim as Joana
Sónia Valente as Mulher
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte

2014 - 2016 "Neither crazy or dead" by Raúl Brandão

The motto of this production is based on the following question: "what is judgment and what is madness?" And one of the possible answers to give may be: "simple points of view and nothing else!" Built from the play " The Crazy and Death "by Raúl Brandão, the plot revolves around Baltasar Penacho de Moscoso, an useless civil governor who devotes his entire working hours to the write poetry, without being able to see his enormous lack of talent for such noble art.On a routine day, when he is trying to write another of his fastidious poems, he is visited by a brilliant scientist with a powerful bomb, Capable of destroying everything and everyone, dragging the politician / poet into a spiral of madness ...

Satirical comedy
DURATION: 55 minutes
DIRECTION AND ADAPTATION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Ricardo Vinagre as Baltasar Penacho de Moscoso
Catarina Reis as Etelvina Carvalho Pintassilgo
Sónia Valente as Judite
Marisa Gomes as Ana Penacho de Moscoso
Francisco Salgueira as Nunes
LIGHT: Carlos Duarte
SOUND: Martina Mendes

2012 - "The Wrath of the Gods" by Casimiro Simões

Teseu, King of Athens, is a hero. Everyone admires and glorifies him. In the eyes of his subjects, he is a perfect monarch. And the crown prince, his son Hipólito, wants to be like him. Strong, daring, heroic and courageous. But such a desire seems to be far from happening. If the prince were really brave and strong, his father would have taken him into battle. On the other hand, the reality in which he believes is diferent. He convinced himself that his feelings are fragile and forbidden ... He longs for feelings and pleasures that he does not dare reveal. He longs to touch the skin of his stepmother, Fedra, the woman chosen by his heart ...

Drama
DURATION: 65 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sónia Valente as Fedra
Ricardo Vinagre as Hipólito
Casimiro Simões as Teseu
Liliana Sá as Sacerdotisa de Atena
Silvia Ferret as Maid
Daniela Neto as Maid

2013 - 2015 "Harpagão, the Old Miser" by Molière

The action takes place in Paris in the seventeenth century, focusing on the subject of avarice. The play recounts the adventures of a greedy widower who, stubbornly, submits to extreme poverty all those who live with him, including his own son.
"After all, the coffers are suspicious, I do not trust them because they are exactly the right bait for thieves, because they are always the first thing they are going to rob. But will it be a good idea to bury, in the garden of your own residence, a box with ten thousand doubloons in gold coins? ... Ten thousand doubles is a very high sum, plus the twenty thousand doubles that are also hidden there, in the other little boxes ... Anyway, it's no small disruption, this to discover in the whole house safe places  to hide my precious little boxes ... "

Comedy
DURATION: 72 minutes
DIRECTION AND ADAPTATION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as Harpagão
Ricardo Vinagre as Cleanto
Daniela Neto as Dorimena
Marisa Gomes as Beatriz
Sónia Valente as Eufrosina
Liliana Sá as Mariana
LIGHT: Carlos Duarte
SOUND: Martina Mendes

Award for Best Performance by an Actress, received at The Theatre Festival of Barcelos in 2013. 

2010-2011 "Fertile Land - A Celtic Tale" by Casimiro Simões

The Celtic gods were numerous and powerful. All children of a primordial mother-goddess, the personification of our planet.
The patriarch who led the deities of the mainland was the god of wisdom, Dgada. Wielding a magic staff, he ruled his divine community, permanently at war with their rivals the sea gods ... The earthly deities were still protected by an army commanded by three warrior goddesses: Morrigan, Macha, and Modron.
Belenos, the god of fire, also participated in this war, spitting uninterruptedly against the enemy, its huge and deadly fireballs.
However, the visit of Lugos, the god of the sun, provokes a true chain reaction, causing the remaining gods to reflect on their own destiny, the future of the earth and the origins of humanity ...

Melodrama
DURATION: 60 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as Dagda
Catarina Reis as Modron
João Pedro Gama as Lugos
Sónia Valente as Morrigan
Liliana Sá as Macha
Wilson Subtil as Belenos
Silvia Ferrete as Woman
Fernando Silva as Man
MAKE-UP: Daniela Neto
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte

2009-2012 "What's more are men!" by Luis Verissimo and Casimiro Simões

A comedy that addresses the eternal and desirable theme of the war between sexes. Indeed, the gulf between the sexes, the misunderstandings and conflicts, even in the twenty-first century, remain present in our lives, just as at the time when Adam first had those complications with Eve ... Women say that they want sensitive men, but never too sensitive ...


Comedy
DURATION: 50 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Casimiro Simões as Man
Sílvia Ferrete as Laura
Sónia Valente as Nélia
Catarina Reis as Juliana
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte

Honorable Mention received at The Theatre Festival of Mortágua in 2012.

2008-2011 "Auto of India" by Gil Vicente

The plot of the "Auto of India", written in 1509, addresses the subject of adultery. A woman, called Constança, is unfaithful to her Husband who leaves for India, driven by the desire for quick and easy enrichment. Initially, the woman worries because she is not yet sure whether the husband leaves or not. Having dispelled this anguish by the news of the departure brought by the maid, her servant, Constança rejoices and indulges in a life of adulterous pleasure with her lovers: the Castilian braggart (Juan de Zamora) and a former Portuguese suitor named Lemos. However, three years after the departure, comes the announcement of the unwanted return of the Husband, a fact that infuriates Constança very much...
The temporal and spatial circumstances are those of the first decade of the sixteenth century, when, behind the glory and the epic façade of overseas expansion, it was already possible to perceive the profound changes, not all positive, that this expansion was provoking in the Portuguese society.

Satirical farce
DURATION: 60 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sílvia Ferrete as Constança
Sónia Valente as Maid
Fernando Silva as Lemos
Roberto Moreira as Juan de Zamora
Casimiro Simões as Husband 
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte