Megan Michalak
THEATER OF INTERRUPTIONS: REHEARSAL FOR AN UNFINISHED HISTORY (PORTUGAL)
2013
Performance
THEATER OF INTERRUPTIONS: REHEARSAL FOR AN UNFINISHED HISTORY (PORTUGAL) 2013, An Associated Project of the Lisboa Architecture Triennale
http://www.close-closer.com/en/programme

by Megan Michalak (filmmaker, US) in collaboration with Miguel Castro Caldas (Playwright, PT), Ligia Soares, (Choreographer, PT), Joao Ruivo (Architect, PT).

Theater of Interruptions: Rehearsal for an Unfinished History (Portugal) reenacts moments of disjunction and contradiction within Portuguese history. We aim to provoke, interrupt, and question the concept of the nation, and what remains of democratic sovereignty in the present context of austerity and what has been called the “counter-revolution.” We present a series of performative reenactments that form the basis of a film within a film, about Portugal as the protagonist of a tale of globalization.