Patrícia Saramago

A widowed theater actor relives his memory of a young love.

Luís Mário Lopes wrote the solo A Boa Alma for Mónica Calle in 2015, based on the works of Bertolt Brecht marking the departure of Casa Conveniente from Cais do Sodré and their arrival in the new venue in zona J, Chelas. The original score is by JP Simões.

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreigner' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?

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Excerpt from the segment included in the performance staged by Mónica Calle in 2010: it shows pairs of actors (the same actress, different actors), directed off-camera, in close-up shots of their faces at the Vale de Judeus Prison, where Casa Conveniente developed an important project.

Filmed in the space of the former bar converted into a theatre where the company was based during the years it occupied Cais do Sodré, A ÚLTIMA GRAVAÇÃO, part of the performance Um Dia Virá, also staged by Mónica Calle from texts by Samuel Beckett in 2007, takes on a more fully realized film form.