After “Carta” - a play that premiered this year at the Teatro D. Maria II, with 32 women on stage and which represents the culmination of seven years of work on its predecessor, “Ensaio Para Uma Cartografia” - Mónica Calle returns to the intimate register and to working on the text, but in a very special context. In “Between Heaven and Earth”, Mónica Calle takes Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão’s writing as her starting point and develops a new creation, at BoCA’s invitation, for a natural setting: between the beach and the dunes, on the Costa da Caparica.
The three actresses - Mónica Calle, Mónica Garnel and Inês Vaz - set off on a 26-day pilgrimage on foot from Lisbon Cathedral to Santiago de Compostela. This journey of faith is part of the diptych “Caminho para a Meia Noite”, which Calle will present with the two actresses later this year at the TBA. This “Between Heaven and Earth” is part of this set of projects, as a first moment of public presentation, and with very specific characteristics: it was conceived for the well-known naturist beach of Costa da Caparica, taking spectators on a journey through the dunes and the forest area, until they meet it. Mónica returns to reflect on identity and female representation, investing in the marginality of her radical and poetic theater.
For just a few spectators, in three daily sessions, “Between Heaven and Earth” takes us into unnamable territory: “In the Apocalypse, repentant demons will be angels and guilty angels will be demons, physically linked back to back” (Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão in “Eu vi o Epidauro”).
