A Caça (The Hunting), a performance that combines the languages of Theatre and Cinema, closes a theatrical trilogy for children and youth initiated by O Bando Theatre in 2006.

After Grão de Bico, a starting point which explored voice and gesture, and Linha da Viagem, which run through the painting by Nadir Afonso and hypnotised us with the vertigo of dance, the Bando features A Caça (The Hunting), where unforeseen feelings stimulated by the cinema are explored.
With staging by Rogério de Carvalho, A Caça is also the name of the homonym short-movie by Manoel de Oliveira, premiered in 1964. Thus, we settle ourselves between the stage and the screen, in order to follow the tours of two hunters without hunting rifle, crossing marshes and notice the daily violence of men and the aggressiveness of the nature.

“Instead of creating performances where children are protected from the rawness of reality, what seduces us is the possibility of an artistic language that enables the young spectator the confrontation with that same reality, using its own defence and adjustment mechanisms to adverse circumstances and emotions.”
João Brites