Goals

Teatro Regional da Serra de Montemuro aims to:

1 – Create original texts that reveal matters, worries and realities of the portuguese contemporary life, mainly in the rural sphere.

2 – Exhibit these performances in conventional and not conventional spaces, from prestigious playhouses to communitarian rooms, in the national, international and European territory.

3 – Innovate and experiment in the use of theatrical space, in the stage-audience device and in the actor-spectator relationship.

4 – Develop and deepen a theatrical language which is a product of a collective process that gives the same importance to text visual elements, interpretation, music and technical elements.

5 – Help on and take part in the cultural, social and economic development of Montemuro region and the general country.

6 – Internationalise TRSM work with the purpose of allowing the individual and collective artistic growth and promoting the portuguese theatre abroad.

7 – Set Espaço Montemuro as an excellent artistic place in what concerns to creation, exhibition, reception and education.

8 – Develop working and kindness links with local and national educational institutions, from nursery schools to universities, with the purpose of demystifying arts, training the public of the future, entertaining and educating through theatre.

9 – Create new audiences for theatre at a local, regional, national and international level; watch over a better affordability to all aging, economic, social and cultural groups.

10 – Practice a varied programming that attracts, challenges, stimulates and surprises all these groups of public and go to meet them, crossing the barriers of the conventional theatre.

11 – Actively search for opportunities of co-production, experience exchanges and training that guarantee the individual and collective artistic evolution.

12 – Keep and develop sustainable structures and strategies of creation, administration, management, promotion and marketing that allow the natural growth of Teatro Regional da Serra do Montemuro and that take the maximum advantage of its artistic and financial potential.

13 – Sensitize and encourage the local authorities, mainly the autarchies, in order that they recognize the potential of arts as an agent of cultural, social and economic development. Search for partnerships with public and private institutions to get support, assistance and patronage.