Among the elements that make the Theatro Circo one of the nicest rooms in the country there is a huge painted canvas covering the mouth scene when there are no shows. What you see there is the representation of an exotic dance, which combines with the exuberance of the golden decoration of that space. None of this was unknown. What was not known, however, was the 1914 watercolor, which was used to that part. Until a few days ago, one great-great grandson of one of Braga Theatre founders sent a photograph of the work by e .
Pedro Gil Almeida is a member of the fourth generation of Cândido Martins heirs, one of three men who led the contract to build a theater in the city of Braga, are now 100 years. “I had gone to visit the theater and I remembered it would be interesting to put the piece available so you can better know their history,” says the PUBLIC. As Almeida in recent days over a dozen Braga has responded to the call made by the heads of that auditorium for to report on parts that have and belong to the history of the Circus Theater.
“The response has been very positive,” values the administrator Claudia Leite, for whom this readiness of the Braga is a sign of the importance that the theater has to town. The actor and stage director António Durães has, however, a different perspective. “The Circus Theater is important for the city to the extent it exists, but not to the extent that is attended” believes. “The overwhelming majority of the people of Braga may have been there once, and then, but many, no.”
Also the leader of cultural yard Old-a-Branca, the main cultural site independent space, Luís Gomes Tarroso, has a negative outlook on the city’s relationship with the concert hall:. “Braga still does not know what he wants for the theater”
The numbers of the last year of activity to the town hall Braga seem to suggest, however, that something is changing in the city. In 2014, passed by the Theatro Circo over 90 thousand spectators, representing a growth of 43% turnout. At the same time, the Quad card – a public loyalty card that is shared with the neighboring cities of Barcelos, Guimarães and Famalicão – registered in Braga, a sharp increase in the number of clients, from 273 in 2012 to more 2,800. The city also became one in which the card is mostly used (47% of the total). The expectation of the perpetrators is so positive so expect, with 100 years, exceeding for the first time the barrier of 100 thousand spectators.
“Without the Circus Theater, this would be a city with less capacity to relate to the outside “, says the artistic director Paulo Brandão also convinced that the auditorium is essential for Braga.
To understand this debate, we must understand the history of Braga theater . Inaugurated on April 21, 1915, pass on Tuesday 100 years, the work – signed by the architect João Moura Coutinho – was a private initiative, which had begun to be conceived almost a decade earlier. The Circus remained private until 1987 when it was purchased by the city of Braga, which also promoted its deep renovation between 1999 and 2006. The degradation process that hit the area during the 1980s and the seven years of closure eventually depart the public that, until then, was faithful.
“We had movie matinees on Sundays exhausted,” says Antonio Durães, who came to set the Circus Theater. The room was also the first where many Braga saw opera or classical concerts, “at a time when the city was very isolated,” recalls the actor and director. The theater Braga was also a pioneer in the 3D cinema, having displayed the first film in this format in a version almost prehistoric technology in 1935.
The Circus Theater was also the stage for the first performance of Amalia Rodrigues in city in 1955, and other less conventional shows, as the fighting in boxing staged in the 1950s, the performance of Papuss, the faster, a fakir announcing go close in a bottle for seven days in the year Inauguration room, or a “major exhibition of roses”, which occupied the entire audience of the theater in 1918.
Six days to start celebrating
Theater Circus promises that the centennial celebration will last all year. The result of gathering material on the local population will give rise to four thematic exhibitions (in July and October this year, and January and April next), dedicated to the theater as urban reorganization of space in the city, its architecture and programming. But before that, there are six party full days to start mark the occasion, throughout this week.
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