Teatro o Bando
Headquarters at Palmela
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| Theatre Company | |
| Industry | Theatre, Actor's Training, Communitary Activities |
| Founded | October 15th 1974 |
| Founders |
João Brites Jaqueline Tison Cândido Ferreira Carmen Marques Jorge Barbosa Maria Janeiro |
| Headquarters | Palmela, Portugal GPS |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Plays, Events and Classes |
| Website | www.obando.pt |
Teatro O Bando is a Portuguese professional traveling theatre company active since 1974. According to its official website, it is "[a] collective that elects aesthetic transfiguration has a civic and communitary participation". It's a Portuguese National Entity of Public Utility and a Certified Actor's Training establishment.
The Cooperativa de Produção Artística Teatro e Animação o Bando (Artistic Production Cooperative for Theatre and Animation o Bando) was founded on October 15, 1974, at Algés by the artists João Brites, Jaqueline Tison, Cândido Ferreira, Carmen Marques, Jorge Barbosa and Maria Janeiro. The name o Bando is the Portuguese expression for a flock of birds. When it was founded, the company was structured within the childhood theatre area, a free concept that fought the post-revolutionary tendency to infantilize children created by commercial children's theatre. According to Teatro O Bando's approach, the child should be an active part of society, able to have a political and artistic point of view and to manage the limits between concrete reality and dreams. This opposes the average commercial approach that underestimates the child's creative potential by using disarming fairy tales and other stereotyped worlds built by grownups.
Teatro O Bando maintains its original collectivist methodology based on a long achieved experience named singularism. The singularism aesthetic methodology has the objective of achieving unexpected and singular works because they are not the result of a single illuminated individual. Those works can be recognized because the artistic leadership seeks the transpersonal dimension of its results and not by being merely based on variations of a same style that repeats itself. This way, Teatro O Bando refreshes its acquired knowledges when it searches for a constant unease and defy in its unclassifiable shows. The group's theatrical creations are fueled by cultural activities, mainly in training and audience sensitization, that interact with several types of participants and contributes to a growing impact in the community, in the artistic métier and in the professional actor's training.
The company adapts Portuguese non-theatrical texts to theater, so that novels, poems and folk stories are staged and are the basis of Teatro O Bando's dramaturgic work. Teatro O Bando has the most shows created from masterworks of Portuguese authors. Its adaptations include:
Teatro O Bando has always sought unconventional spaces to put on productions. Even when the show happens in a conventional theatre, different solutions are studied. For example, the front of the stage can advance inside and over some of the audience's chairs in a big diagonal, creating a break from formal, frontal stage.
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