Funding Entity and Project Reference: ‘The Holocaust and Modernity: violence and obedience in presente societies’. Project funded by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology under the special support for R&D projects ‘Portugal and the Holocaust: research and memory’. ID: 740684458. Project

Coordinator: Rui Manuel Pina Coelho

Research Unit: FLUL-CET

Funding: 33,656.00 euros

Duration: 05/04/2021 – 19/06/2022

Abstract: To develop a state-of-the-art capable of reflecting contemporary thought on the relationship between how modern society is organized and the factors that led to the Holocaust, in a historical context, but also within the field of performative arts. Establishing a route for the construction of performance which has as basis the relationship between the academic investigation as proposed and its connection to the object of art.

Identify the conditions which allow for and validate an installation of the Holocaust in both its original and present context.

Working with professional actors as well as a group of adolescents. The aim is the widening theatre audience while also raising awareness of social habitats in citizens, capable of identifying and denouncing situations of abuse of power or subserviente obedience in and out of their family and school circles.