Between the lines
Tiago Rodrigues had already written for Tónan Quito several times. Now he had to write a new text for this actor to perform alone on stage, but it kept being delayed for mysterious reasons. It was then that a series of accidents, as real as they were literary, gave birth to 'Entrelinhas' ('Between the Lines').
Portraying the enigmatic relationship between author and actor, this play is a secret passage that links reality to the underworlds of fiction. In a narratorial labyrinth, the play merges Sophocles’ 'Oedipus Rex' with the letters of an imprisoned man to his mother, written in between the lines of an edition of the Greek tragedy found in the prison library. But it always comes back to the present: a theatre in which an actor comes and explains to the audience why he hasn’t been able to put on the play that was promised.
With a performance that won him a nomination for Best Actor of the Year Prize by Time Out, Tónan Quito develops an intimate relationship with the audience. And he does it in a part of the theatre that belongs more to the audience than to the actors: the waiting area before the start of plays. Because 'Entrelinhas' is also about that: what we expect from theatre.
Credits:
Creation by: Tiago Rodrigues, Tónan Quito
Text: Tiago Rodrigues
With: Tónan Quito
Artistic collaboration: Magda Bizarro
Set, light and costumes: Magda Bizarro, Tiago Rodrigues, Tónan Quito
Technical Direction: André Pato
French translation: Thomas Resendes
English translation: Daniel Hahn
Tradução para italiano: Luca Starita
Technical Direction: Cárin Geada, André Pato
Subtitles operation: Rita Mendes
Production Management: OTTO Productions - Nicolas Roux & Lucila Piffer
Executive Production on the original creation: Magda Bizarro, Rita Mendes
An original creation by the company Mundo Perfeito (2013), supported by Portuguese Government and DGArtes.
Recommended age: 12+
Show premiered at 7th of February 2013, at São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon (Portugal)
Tour dates:
18 December 2025: O Teatrão, Coimbra (Portugal)
16 – 17 January 2026: Scene 55, Mougins (France)
13 March 2026: Cineteatro Municipal João Mota, Sesimbra (Portugal)
More information:
Nicolas Roux – OTTO Productions
International tours
nicolas.roux@ottoulouse.fr
Tónan Quito
Tours in Portugal
homembala18@gmail.com
Photograph: © Mariano Barrientos
