20 years have passed since a group of young people took its
first steps into theatre. It’s in the small village of Campo
Benfeito, lost in labyrinthine paths and hills of Serra do
Montemuro that the group still works. Nowadays the team has
seven members, but each new project brings to Campo Benfeito
professionals from all around the country and abroad. Actors
and actresses, designers, playwrights and directors flock to
the village with the enthusiasm to create something
different, something unique.
As a company in a rural area, Teatro do Montemuro is by
obligation, but also by vocation a touring company, the "jugglers"
of the 21st century, with a big bet on sets, detailed
costumes and props, masks, live music.
Over 16 years of creations as a professional theater company,
the group distinguishes itself by the authenticity and
originality of its writings, sets, music and also by the
actors work based on truth, emotion, joy and physicality
brought to exhaustion.
Teatro do Montemuro is a solid structure that invests its
resources creating new artistic projects, training, and
planning its national and international tour, in the
Altitude’s Festival and in other dynamics, that allow a
gradual growth of the company, always based on a notion of
sustainability.
Its performance has corrected culture asymmetries,
presenting to public performances executed with rigor,
seriousness, professionalism, but accessible to everyone,
from a lawyer to a farmer.