Community theatre for adults

Alento Teatro Comunitário

Alento is the association’s adult theatre group: a space for encounter, expression and collective creation, open to people from the community.

The Alento Community Theatre group together in a group portrait — Photo: Omraj

Here, theatre is a tool for listening, sharing and making meaning. The work includes improvisation, stage writing, acting and the creation of performances rooted in local life.

The group brings together people from different cultural backgrounds and helps bring the Casa do Povo de São Martinho das Amoreiras to life.

2026 production

CALMA CA’ALMA

A village, a dance… and everything about to boil over.

Written and directed by Marco Telmo Quintino. 28 and 29 November 2026, Casa do Povo.

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Direction

Director and teacher

Marco Telmo Quintino

Marco Telmo Quintino leads the theatre work of the TED and Alento Community Theatre groups. He wrote and directs CALMA CA’ALMA. His practice with the groups brings together creation, performance and community.

Marco Telmo Quintino (Setúbal, 1977) has worked as an actor, playwright and cultural producer between Portugal, the Netherlands and Luxembourg since 1996. He trained in neutral mask with Filipe Crawford and in playwriting with Jorge Silva Melo, took the acting course of the Antwerp Institute for Theatre Research under Harvey Grossmann, attended an Actors Studio master class with Marcia Haufrecht and a master class in Meyerhold’s biomechanics with Matthias Poppe, and took part in Odin Week with Eugenio Barba.

He co-founded Teatro do Elefante and founded Kat In De Zak Producties, and has experience in creating, organising and managing events. As an actor and performer he has worked under the direction of Fernanda Lapa, José Carretas, Américo Rodrigues, Niko Douwes, Marijn Singer, Sofia Cabrita, Gonçalo Guerreiro and Tiago de Faria, among others.

He was artistic director of Teatro da Estrada, of the Valinhas artist residency and of the new circus company PomPom (Netherlands and Luxembourg), and programmed theatre for the Triafata Festival in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands. He works regularly with Teatro do Mira and Teatro da Targala.

Set and visual production

Set and visual production · CALMA CA’ALMA

Margarida Pedro

Margarida Pedro was born in Odemira. She learned traditional Alentejo painting in Montemor-o-Novo in 2017 and returned home to carry the technique on, which she also shares in workshops. Under her own name she makes contemporary art — papier-mâché pieces, some using materials discarded by the sea — and explores the deconstruction of traditional Alentejo painting. For CALMA CA’ALMA she created the set and visual production, bringing Alentejo painting onto the stage.