As part of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Teatro Praga, the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto invited the company to devise an exhibition about its history. Curated by Nuno Crespo, this proposal marks Teatro Praga’s unprecedented entry into an unfamiliar territory: the visual arts.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, a famous line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is a retrospective of Teatro Praga’s work.
But because time does not have to be a fixed criterion, Teatro Praga chooses not to look only backwards. Without shying away from the past, the company launches itself into the future, creating new works based on its previous creations and ideas yet to be realised, with its eyes firmly fixed on what is yet to come. This exhibition selects works that contain or imply a performative dimension — present, past or future — including pieces performed by the company, as well as pieces made or activated with and by the audience. Outside the theatre, outside the spotlights, outside the applause.

For a week in Lisbon, Teatro Praga begins by transforming Rua das Gaivotas 6 into its studio and workshop, opening one exhibition per day for six consecutive days — 30 years in six days. Every day, a new exhibition will be born, conceived and assembled in real time by the artists. Different works, in different spaces, activated by different people.

This first moment serves as an approach to past works, their reactivation and transformation, and as a space for interaction between the public and new creations.

This week’s openings will be recorded and will be part of another ‘tomorrow’: the final exhibition at the Catholic University of Porto in May. WOW: Retrospective (12 March — 8 May) will bring together and summon all the works and exhibitions shown in Lisbon in the deliberate constitution of a past.

Which will not be an end either.
But a tomorrow.