Tickets available at the theater box office 48 hours before the show.
The 2nd Culture and Education Biennial of the National Arts Plan (PNA) launched a theme/challenge for the 2025/2026 school year: “What if instead of fear?” And we answered: “A musical!”
This is an original artistic project coordinated and produced by Reinaldo Barros and Sandra Alves. It involves the collaboration of the PNA's resident artists at the Dr. Jorge Augusto Correia School Group (AEJAC): André Conde, Genoveva Faísca, Rita Burmester, and João Gonçalves. It includes 6 teachers, 4 resident artists, and approximately 30 students from various educational levels.
Antiphobia 1.0 addresses the fears and dystopias of contemporary society, the risks of alienation and manipulation, and the loss of existential meaning. It is a philosophical and aesthetic reflection on the dehumanization of human relationships in an artificial, technologically complex, and challenging world of dubious truths. This project highlights, due to its relevance, the fear of war, the death of loved ones, concern for the future, and the obliteration of memory and the past. At its core, it always explores the rise of dictatorships, the loss of ethical and moral values, and the proliferation of chaos and barbarity. It freely adapts Fernando Pessoa's poem "The Boy of His Mother," written around the First World War. Its shockwaves continue to echo into the future, like the cry of Picasso's Guernica.
Antiphobia 1.0 is a collective, intergenerational creation intended for the school community and the general public; it uses a multidisciplinary, contemporary, experimental, and innovative performative language; it crosses and explores the languages of dance, music, singing, and video; it explores the use of sound and electronic technologies to create impactful and immersive sound environments; it embraces the domains of art, science, and technology; it fosters cultural appreciation; and it contributes to the development of critical, aesthetic, and artistic sense. This play addresses relevant themes of citizenship and human values. It lasts approximately one hour.
It premieres on May 8, 2026, at 9 PM, at the António Pinheiro Municipal Theatre in Tavira.
It has the support of the Tavira City Council and the António Pinheiro Theatre.
Reinaldo Barros - Coordinator PCE/PNA AEJAC
TECHNICAL SHEET:
Concept / Creation: Reinaldo Barros, Sandra Alves, André Conde, Genoveva Faísca
Coordination: Reinaldo Barros (PNA)
Production: Reinaldo Barros | Sandra Alves
Original Music: André Conde
Texts | Lyrics: Reinaldo Barros | Sandra Alves | Fernando Pessoa (The Boy of His Mother (excerpts))
Video scenery: Diego Barros | Reinaldo Barros
Project direction: Reinaldo Barros
Artistic direction: Sandra Alves
Musical direction: André Conde
Voice direction: Genoveva Faísca
Staging support: Rita Burmester
Creation/production support: Crônica Pitoresca (Rita Burmester and João Gonçalves) | Ana Durão | Ricardo Brito
Performers: students and teachers from AEJAC | CriarLab | ArtClub | resident artists | guests
Partners: Tavira City Council | Antônio Pinheiro Municipal Theatre
♿ Accessible seats for people with reduced mobility are available at the António Pinheiro Municipal Theatre box office.
❗Entry is not permitted after the start of the performances, and no refunds will be given for tickets, in accordance with current legislation (Decree-Law No. 23/2014 of February 14, amended by paragraph 5 of article 10 of Decree-Law No. 90/2019, of July 5).
❗Children under 3 years of age are not allowed entry, as stipulated in Decree-Law 23/2014 of February 14, in its current wording (article 26).