“The Garden” is a journey through time, a masterful magic trick of perspectivism, in which family memories and private desires come up against social misconceptions and hidden historical links. “The Garden” could also be called “The House”, which the seven actors erect in no time with a few cardboard boxes on a previously empty stage, three equal spaces for a three audiences – each space filled in turn with three stories played in a row three times. They are family stories, fragments and shreds of memories across time, social strata and cultural backgrounds, told non-linearly in moments of upheaval and transition, of farewells and departures, of being abandoned, displaced and driven away. They can also be seen as three quite banal excerpts from the history of any old house with a garden - stories that took place in the 1920’s, the 1970’s and the 2010’s, which shed some light on the personal climaxes or downfalls and the truly fulfilled lives of a few supposedly simple folk. Lives that like so many subjective chronicles move us to tears with their exemplary character, the universality of their randomness. After celebrated performances e.g. in New York and Washington, Athens, Berlin and Bogotá, “O Jardim” now stops by for two shows at the Frankfurt LAB, before the multiple Brazilian prize-winning production continues on to the Wiener Festwochen.

In Brazilian Portuguese with German surtitles.

With Aline Filócomo, Edison Simão, Fernanda Stefanski, Mariah Amélia Farah, Paula Picarelli, Thiago Amaral, Luciana Paes de Barros * Text, Presentation: Leonardo Moreira * Producer / Management: Aura Cunha * Set & Lighting Design: Marisa Bentivegna * Lighting Technician: Camila Martins * Music by: Marcelo Pellegrini * Sound Technician: Miguel Caldas * Costumes Design: Theodoro Cochrane * Assistant Producer:  Yumi Ogino * Assistant Set Designer:  Cezar Renzi * Co-production: Elephante Produções Artística suppoerted by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art