ESTRO / WATTS Poesia da idade do Rock
Event
Estro, from Ancient Greek "oîstros" and latin "oestrus", stands for inspiration, enthusiasm, poetic fury. Estro is also the title of a project directed by Gonçalo Amorim and Paulo Furtado. Teatro Experimental do Porto, in-house company at Teatro Campo Alegre, via the Campo Aberto programme, and often featured in the Teatro Municipal do Porto’s season, sets out to explore the dual natura of the word “rock” and poetic practice. As in the Iliad or the Odyssey, which are known to have been compilations of stories of heroes, wars, and passions told in the squares, "rock" used the poetic word to publicly shout life, to summon everyone to talk about death, war, love and lovelessness, loneliness, concrete jungles, the experience of the working class and oppression. This public profile, which gathers people around it, which congregates, contrasts sharply with the introspection that the poetic gesture so often requires. In the age of rock, a new place was established as a political and aesthetic reference, a place that was once taken by theatre. What happened to that heritage? Where are the troubadours? Estro wants to hand this style of music its folk songbook status back.
