The Trindade Theatre Season, in Lisbon, for 2026/2027, “crosses themes such as identity, memory, family, emancipation and overcoming, integrating comedy proposals that call for humor to face the concerns of our time”, was announced today.
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A the first of six premieres of the season is scheduled for the next September 10th, in the Studio Room: “A House, Sure”, by Constance Bourgard, with which he won the 8th edition of the Miguel Rovisco – New Theatre Texts Award. The act is by Miguel Fragata. And actors Ana Valentim and André Leitão interpret a couple who buy an apartment in the center of Lisbon and face wage inequalities, class tensions and gender expectations, according to the program released today by the theater.
The play “Dead Poets Club”, by Tom Schulman, with the performance of Hélder Gamboa, a success of the current season, with “more than 55,000 tickets sold”, continues on a poster from September 9 until December 20, in the Carmen Dolores Room, the main of the Trinity.
A coproduction of the Teatro da Trindade/INATEL and Tenda Produções, “Club dos Poetas Mortos” has interpretations of Dany Duarte, Diogo Fernandes, Diogo Infante, Diogo Mesquita, Jaime Pinto Gamboa, João Maria Cardoso, João Sá Nogueira, Nuno Represas, Rafael Leitão, Rui Pedro Silva and Virgilio Castelo.
In January, the play starts a tour around the country, with dates scheduled for the Teatro Sá da Bandeira, in Porto, from 08 to 31 January, at the Teatro Municipal de Ourém, in the district of Santarém, on 20 and 21 February, at the Teatro Municipal de Oliveira de Azeméis, in the district of Aveiro, on 6 and 7 March, at the Centro de Artes de Águeda, also in the district of Aveiro, on 13 and 14 March, in the Cultural Center of Paredes, in the district of Porto, on 20 and 21 March, and in Leiria, at the Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, on 26 and 27 March also next March.
As part of the new season, and later this year, the premiere of “Under Pressure”, on November 19, a creation of Cristina Carvalhal, starting from Arthur Miller’s “Danger: Memory!”. Ana Valentim, Cucha Carvalheiro and João Maria Pinto “give body to five characters, in two apparently unrelated stories”. A coproduction between the Trindade/INATEL Theatre and the Common Causes, which will be on stage until January 10, in the Studio Room.
The actress Patricia Tavares stars the monologue “Bárbara”, with the act of Flávio Gil, from the autobiography of Brazilian journalist Barbara Gancia, 68 years old, “in which counts her battle against alcoholism, from the greatest adversities to sobriety”. It will be on display from February 17th to April 4th, near.
On February 18, she goes up to the scene in the Carmen Dolores Room, “La Nonna”, by Roberto Cossa, with the performance of Marco Medeiros, a play starring Maria Rueff, alongside Ana Lopes, António Melo, Frederico Barata, Rita Tristão da Silva, Rui Melo and Teresa Faria.
In May of next year, on the 12th, the comedy “Intimate Lives”, by Noël Coward, a co-production Teatro da Trindade/INATEL and Loup Solitaire, with the performance of Elmano Sancho, which is also part of the cast, alongside Carlos Malvarez, Inês Castel-Branco and Susana Blazer.
“Florence, The Worst Singer of the World”, by Peter Quilter, staged by Diogo Infante, closes the season, and will be on stage in the Carmen Dolores Room, from May 20 to July 25, with Ana Brito and Cunha, Ana Cloe, Elsa Galvão, Flávio Gil and Paulo Pires.
The play is also the basis of a film, "Florence Foster Jenkins", starring Meryl Streep, featuring Stephen Frears.
In parallel to the theatrical programming, the Teatro da Trindade/INATEL will be the setting of concerts by Anabela, Viviane, Miramar (Frankie Chavez and Peixe), Elisa & Tiago Nogueira, as well as shows by stand-up comedy with, among others, Dário Guerreiro, Guilherme Fonseca and Diogo Faro.
“The season also includes initiatives such as ‘Guided Visits’, held monthly, and ‘Down Talks’, meetings open to the public, in which actors of the shows on stage revisit their careers in theater, cinema and television.”.