TEATRO PRAGA
Who needs Realism when we can have Fakism?
The individualities that form Teatro Praga (a group of artists that work without director) embrace an unrepeatable theatrical practice: they are always different, in constant metamorphosis and subjected to unpredictable variations of themselves. The group finds their difference and identity not in questions such as “What do we do? What has been done?” but in a necessity and will to live in confrontation with the answers that arise out of those questions.
Our performances are happenings which, whilst maintaining the physical form of theatre (fiction), search for the “utmost responsibility of the spectator”, i.e. the chance to find a community amidst the fictional chaos.
TEATRO PRAGA was formed in 1995 and is currently located at Espaço Teatro Praga, in Lisbon. The group has been regularly creating theatre pieces co-produced by the most prestigious contemporary cultural organizations in Portugal and have performed at several festivals and events in other European countries (Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia and Denmark).

PEDRO PENIM
Stage director and performer
Born in 1975.
BA in Theatre from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon.
He is a founding member and the artistic director of Teatro Praga (www.teatropraga.com), the company with which he has worked and which has won several prizes in the area of Theatre (an honourable mention in the Acarte Prize 2003, the 2003 Teatro na Década Prize, the Teatro SIC 12 anos prize).
His work as a stage director and actor extends to the areas of writing, translation and education (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Balleteatro, and others) and he has had his works presented in Portugal and other European countries such as France, Italy, the UK, Germany, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Hungary.
He was a guest director at Capitals / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian at Capitals in Discussion, curated by Jan Ritsema and Bojana Cvejić, and on the project It Will Be What We Make It (composed by an international group of theoreticians and artists).
Noteworthy works with Teatro Praga include: Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão (Centro Cultural de Belém, 2010), Padam Padam (Prospero Project, CCB, 2009), Turbo-Folk (São Luiz theatre, 2008), Discotheater (Alkantara festival, 2006), Eurovision (presented at several festivals, both in Portugal and abroad, 2005-2010) and Private Lives (Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Naples).

CATARINA CAMPINO (Lisbon, 1972) studied painting and drawing at Ar.Co. – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual – and graduated from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts, at the same school, in 1997. She has been exhibiting regularly in Portugal and abroad since 1995, with solo and group exhibitions. She makes use of a varied range of formats and media (including video, sculpture, installation, photography and performance), collaborating regularly with other artists from areas as diverse as theatre, music, cinema or dance. In conjunction with her artistic career, she has developed her work as a curator in independent exhibitions featuring artists of her generation and written regularly on contemporary art. In 2007, following several previous occasional collaborations, she was invited to be part of the Teatro Praga company, with which she has maintained an ongoing dialogue. Catarina Campino is represented in Portugal by Galeria Carlos Carvalho (Lisbon), and in Spain by Galeria Bacelos (Vigo).