During a press conference held at the Trindade stage, Diogo Infante highlighted that among the four plays to be staged at the Estúdio room, one is the winner of the 7th edition of the Miguel Rovisco New Theatrical Texts Award, ‘Julieta e Romeu’, by Ricardo Correia, directed by Flávio Gil, premiering on September 11.
‘Brokeback Mountain’, based on Annie Proulx’s story, ‘Dead Poets Society’, by Tom Schulman, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, by Lewis Carroll, ‘Julieta e Romeu’, by Ricardo Correia, ‘Miss Julie’, by August Strindberg, ‘The Seagull’, by Chekhov, and ‘True West’, by Sam Shepard, comprise the theater lineup.
For Diogo Infante, texts that “can generate interest and whose production allows for medium and long-term runs” are one of the “very important” premises of the Teatro da Trindade/Fundação Inatel’s programming, which thrives on the ability to be “self-sustaining and for the shows to pay for themselves.”
Diogo Infante assures that he “did not make it easy in his choices,” stating “it’s possible to work for a more transversal and general audience” and still be “demanding,” as he was in the “selection of texts,” drawing on “classics, works of art, masterpieces of contemporary literature.”
For the artistic director of the Theater, the new season also establishes “bridges with current events, contemporaneity, and the way we look at the world and assess this particular moment we are living in, where questions of ethical, moral, social, political, economic order arise,” he said.
What “interests him as an artistic director” is “to launch these challenges and create and give teams a platform that allows them to develop a sustained, quality, and ambitious work,” he emphasized.
Remembering that there are film versions for six of the seven plays that fill the season, Diogo Infante emphasized that the “most important” thing is to bring that to the stage, creating a theater “that aims to be alive, immersive, where people feel they are witnessing something unique.”
The new season at Teatro da Trindade opens on September 4, with the premiere of ‘Alice in Wonderland’, by Lewis Carroll, at the Carmen Dolores room, in a production by Marco de Medeiros, with musical direction by Artur Guimarães, which will be on stage until December 28.
Out of the total plays, six were shown in cinema, namely ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Dead Poets Society’, in which Diogo Infante will play the role of the professor.
Directed by Daniel Gorjão, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is inspired by the Touchstone Pictures film and will be at the Estúdio room from February 19 to April 5. Meanwhile, ‘Dead Poets Society’, by Tom Schulman, directed by Hélder Gamboa, will take the stage at the Carmen Dolores room from April 30 to August 2, 2026.
About ‘Alice in Wonderland’, Marco Medeiros stated it is directed towards the present and will be based on three questions: “Who are we today, what do we want to be, and where do we want to belong?”
On September 11, the Estúdio room will host the premiere of ‘Julieta e Romeu’, the text with which Ricardo Correia, actor and founder of Casa da Esquina in 2008, won the 7th edition of the Miguel Rovisco New Theatrical Texts Award.
‘Julieta e Romeu’ tells the story of two young people – Romeo, the son of migrants, and Juliet, the daughter of a xenophobic politician – who fall in love in a theater group. The play will run from September 11 to October 26.
‘Miss Julie’, by Strindberg, will be staged at the Estúdio room from November 27 to January 18, 2026, directed by João de Brito, director of Lama Teatro, and ‘The Seagull’, by Chekhov, with adaptation and direction by Diogo Infante, will appear on the Carmen Dolores stage from January 29 to April 5, 2026. These are among the spectacles for the 2025/2026 season of Teatro da Trindade.
From April 23 to June 14, 2026, ‘True West’, by Sam Shepard, directed by Rita Lello, will close the next season of Teatro da Trindade/Inatel, where music will only be present in the ‘Frequency 440’ Project, which will give space to eight artists not yet in the market, for a total of 16 concerts.
For this, Teatro da Trindade will open applications today for this project from the Culture Department of Fundação Inatel, said the department’s head.
In theater, “there are no social media or artificial intelligence to save us; it’s us with our emotions and our bodies, in a shared experience that is what I most intend to promote,” concluded Diogo Infante.
Asked about the role of ‘Captain’ that he will play in ‘Dead Poets Society’, for which the actor is not yet preparing, Diogo Infante said he “does not want to think much about it” as it is “a heavy legacy, such an iconic role played by an incredible actor.”
“The idea of not resigning, of indeed stimulating and promoting individual acceptance are characteristics with which I identify, so I will approach the character as I almost always do with all characters, which is to start from myself,” Diogo Infante concluded.
