It’s a long yesterday

One or two bodies, six maximum. “It’s a long yesterday” is an exercise about the desire, the fracture and the multiplication.

For this project we are driven by the personal and intimate purpose of working on our condition of twin sisters – and what that means for us – as a research tool to reflect on the potentiality of an imprecise and multiple body. Therefore, we start from a concept that is always present in our biographical universe – resemblance. A dubious concept in itself, since what is similar is neither the same nor different, but is placed in an intermediate space between the two opposites. Resemblance is nothing more than a space of indefiniteness, of anonymity, and for that very reason it is an open space to multiple senses and meanings. “It’s a long yesterday” is located in that intermediate place: between the same and the different, between the one and the multiple, between a gesture of love and a gesture of hate.

Creation and performance: Carminda Soares and Maria R. Soares

Original music: Antonio Marotta

Lighting design: João Abreu

Video: Alberto Seixas

Outside look: Cristina Planas Leitão, Lara Russo, Rogério Nuno Costa and Susana Otero

Co-production: Companhia Instável and Teatro Municipal do Porto

Financial support: Portuguese Republic – Culture | DGARTES – General Direction of Arts

Residency support: Companhia Instável, Visões Úteis, TUP – Teatro Universitário do Porto, Circolando, Associazione Culturale Alchemilla (IT)

Management: Sekoia – Performing Arts