Since 2025, POLIS Teatro Festival inaugurates a collaboration with PAV, entrusting texts translated through the international project Fabulamundi New Voices to local theater companies to create a mise en espace, which is presented as a national premiere at POLIS.
CorpoArena (BodyArena) is a triptych around the many challenges a body is confronted with. The action plays around food and how we can go on consuming like we now do; if we can secure sleeping in the age of maximum productivity; and if we really must go on aging. And what about dying?
with Massimiliano Rassu, Massimiliano Farina e Edoardo Liverani
stage adaptation Matteo Cavezzali
duration 50′
Joana Bértholo is a novelist and a play-writer based in Lisbon, after living abroad for many years, in Europe and South America, with a highlight to the year spent in Buenos Aires, volunteering at Eloisa Cartonera, a very special book publisher that works with the «cartoneros», urban waste scavengers, and their hand-made books. She holds a degree in Graphic Design (Lisbon’s Fine Arts Faculty) and a PhD in Cultural Studies (Europa-Universität Viadrina, in Germany). Her thesis was selected and published by Routledge Press. Joana pursues a wide scope of interests through writing, using both the book as the stage as a platform to investigate on ecology, technology, sustainability, narratives, among others. She has published three novels, two books of short-stories and a children’s book with Editorial Caminho, one of the most prestigious Portuguese publishing houses; as well as other texts with other publishers in different collections and anthologies. For the stage, she began by supporting the dramaturgy for four different creations by the choreographer Madalena Victorino. She then wrote nine short monologues for a Theatre Festival set in the centenary shops of Lisbon. After that she ventured her first long play («Quarto Minguante»), and was responsible for the dramaturgy for another long play and a children’s piece.
Teatro Onnivoro was founded in 2008 by director and playwright Matteo Cavezzali. Over the years the ensemble has changed several times. The shows have received several awards in Italy and abroad, such as the Weya in U.K. for the English translation of the play Nontobe.