Neptuno

Rui Neto

Neptune returns to Ossonoba, the important Roman city. What he finds is far from being the city he once knew. Everything has changed. There is the alfa pendular high-speed train and the intercity train, the motorbike club, the very expensive espresso at the Hotel terrace, the Horta da Areia that is worth more than 300 million and an Adidas mega store.

NEPTUNE is a Rui Neto creation. A theatrical project in the form of a monologue which arises from an invitation to create the Encontros do DeVIR festival. Faro is the engine of this proposal, inspired in ‘a delayed promise’, and the confrontation between ‘present, past and future’. The creation starts with the writing of the text and extends to the scenic device, which is an important element in the construction of the show, developed every rehearsal, giving way to the discovery of the scene and going beyond the interpreter's work.

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Credits

text, performance and scenic design - Rui Neto

sound design - Cristóvão Campos

light design - João Rafael Silva

video - Roger Madureira

cenography  Rui Miragaia

photography - Roger Madureira

art and design direction - Rui Neto

assistance - Rosária Rocha

production - LoboMau Produções

co-production - DeVIR/CAPa (a commission from Festival “encontros do DeVIR”)

support - Teatro de Carnide - Era Uma Vez.. Cabeleireiro

agradecimentos: Leitão Correia, David Fernandes, Telmo Ventura, Fernando Grade e Marco Lopes

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Bio Rui Neto

Degree in Theatre/Training of Actors, in the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. Masters in Communication Sciences/Communication and Arts, by the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He debuted as an actor in 1999, in a Magdalena Wallenstein production “O Achamento”. He worked with stage directors such as João Garcia Miguel, Joaquim Benite, Carlos J. Pessoa, Carlos Gomes, Celso Cleto, Matthew Lenton, Álvaro Correia, João Mota and João Lourenço. He has developed writing and theatrical creation projects: Luto; Worms (financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2013); Mechanical Monsters (financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2015); Catch My Soul (for the Carnide Theatre, 2017). He stage directed Huis Clos, by Jean Paul Sartre and A Cabeça Muda, by Cláudia Lucas Chéu (financed by GDA and the Direcção Regional de Cultura do Algarve, in a LAMA production). In 2015, he signed to stage direct Breviário para um Extermínio Silencioso, from Contractions by Mike Bartlett, for the Companhia Escola de Mulheres. In 2016 he founded LoboMau Productions with the show Trocava a minha fama por uma caneca de cerveja, a creation with Teresa Sobral for the Glorious Summer Festival of the São Luiz Theater.

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