VIDRO PANTERA – ESTILHAÇOS DE HEINER MÜLLER
The new co-creation by Alma d’Arame and Teatro de Ferro
Premiere in Faro in January 2026.
On the 30th anniversary of the German dramaturg’s death, we decided to create a show-visit-blitzkrieg to the universe of Heiner Müller. Fragments of his poetry and theatre will enliven bodies, spaces, objects, masks and even puppets. Aristocrats and dictators, soldiers, lovers, the living and the dead will engage in a dialogue with major figures from European mythology and culture in a East-West tension that H.M. knew so well how to synthesise. Vidro Pantera is a show made up of shards, of pieces of text, and on this jagged and kaleidoscopic journey we end up discovering a Müller who is both author and actor in the dramas he wrote and lived.
Based on texts by Heiner Müller
Direction: Igor Gandra
Set design: Amândio Anastácio
Music: Carlos Guedes
Dramaturgy support: Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Multimedia: Luís Grifu
Lighting design: Amândio Anastácio, João Sofio
Video: LoTA Gandra
Artistic direction: Eduardo Mendes
Artistic supervision: Carla Veloso
Performers: Guilherme Vieira, Mariana Ferreira, Matilde Gandra, Rui Oliveira.
Singer: Catarina Perdigão
Construction workshop: Eduardo Mendes, Catarina Falcão, Igor Gandra, Amândio Anastácio, Ana Catarina Silva (puppet costumes)
Communication: Raquel Cunha and Pedro Maia
Co-creation and production: Teatro de Ferro and Alma d’Arame
Co-production: Faro Municipal Theatre
Film
Direction: LoTA Gandra and Igor Gandra
Screenplay: Based on ‘The Holy Family’ (Germany Death in Berlin) by Heiner Müller
Cast: Diana Sá, Filipe Moreira, Igor Gandra, Guilherme Vieira, Matilde Gandra, Mariana Ferreira, Rui Oliveira, Carlota Gandra and Catarina Perdigão
Assistant director: Catarina Lopes
Art direction: Igor Gandra, Amândio Anastácio and Eduardo Mendes
Special effects: Júlio Alves
Lighting design: Mariana Figueroa
Production director: Carla Veloso
Alma d’Arame and Teatro de Ferro are structures funded by: Portuguese Republic / Culture, Youth and Sport, Directorate-General for the Arts