Em Outubro já não estou cá, portanto

We are a generation made up of many generations. The flattening of a single way of feeling: at a distance. The elders used to say: know how to keep depth at the surface — but we no longer feel even at skin level. During our journeys, we sit facing forward, already imagining another trip, the one we’ll take when we reach a destination — always provisional, always fragile, always halfway to nowhere. We have become biological vessels of non-presence, and even the love we offer to others is merely a bridge between the now and the anticipation of its end.
By October, we’ll already be with someone else, in another home, at a different job, with a new pet. In the meantime, we wear some sweaters, shout a few slogans in the streets, and stroke our cat, all while preparing for the day when it too decides to leave.
It might be October, or it might just as well be any other month.

Concept and Artistic Direction Carminda Soares, Lígia Soares e Nuno dos Reis

Performance Alexandra de Castro, Alexandre Gutta, Ana Rita Teixeira, Ana Velhinho, Diogo Figueiredo, Helena Xavier, Inês Sincero, Pedro Sottomayor, Ricardo Mendes, Teresa Van-Zeller, Tomé Nunes Pinto

Musical composition João Coutinho, Ricardo Brito

Musical performance: Helvio Mendes and Ricardo Brito

Sound design and sound operation: João Coutinho

Set design: Bruno dos Reis, Francisco Lé and João Matos

Set design support: Érica Silva, Diana Mendonça, Diana Sampaio, Francisco Eira, Hugo Miguel, Paulo Pinho 

Video and video operation: João Nunes

Light design: Bruno dos Reis and Francisco Monteiro 

Light operation: João Matos

Stage machinery: António Quaresma

Technical support: Hugo Grave

Illustration: Nuno dos Reis

Graphic design: Beatriz Fernandes

Executive production: Gabriela Cavaz and Maria Calão

Production support: Inês Pereira

 Production: GrETUA

Co-production: Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro 2024 – Portuguese Capital of Culture

Thanks: Associação dos Amigos do Carocho, Carlos Teixeira, Junta de Freguesia de Aradas, Maria Inês Santos, Universidade de Aveiro.