The show offers three performances and deals with the musical taste during adolescence and the ˊguilty pleasuresˊ

 

The new theatrical performance hall La Salita of the Auditorio de Tenerife welcomes Romeu Costa this weekend with his show María Kárei, a piece in which he reflects on the musical guilty pleasures of adolescence. The Portuguese actor and director's three show times for this work will take place on Friday (20), Saturday (21), and Sunday (22) at 7.30 p.m.

Romeu Costa is the lead in María Karéi, a work about a researcher who tries to discover why some songs from our adolescence remain in our memory well into our adult lives, like favourite hangouts to which we often return.

To find out why this happens, the researcher turns his attention to the songs we insist on listening to alone because they embarrass us and thus become our guilty pleasures. After reviewing hits from the 90s and studies on the role music plays in our lives, the researcher sets his sights on the American artist Mariah Carey. She becomes the subject of his research and his guilty pleasure.

In this work, Costa questions “how we can become aware of who we are and our position in the world through the songs we listen to and, in particular, through the songs that embarrass us”. In addition, he contended that “watching Mariah Carey may be a way of trying to understand the world, Portugal in the 80s and 90s and our memories of adolescence”.

“María Karéi” takes audiences on a journey through icons, memories and embarrassments. In this performance-based conference, the researcher becomes a case study and a subject of discovery. The show is co-produced by D. Maria II National Theatre and Matosinhos Constantino Nery Municipal Theatre.

Romeu Costa is an actor known abroad for interpreting the fascist in Tiago Rodrigues’ play “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists. After earning a degree in theatre studies from the Higher School of Theatre and Cinema of Lisbon, his professional career began in 2000 with the most important creators of theatrical works in Portugal at the time, like Beatriz Batarda, Bruno Bravo, Gonçalo Amorim, Luca Aprea, Marco Martins, Miguel Seabra, Natália Luíza, Nuno Cardoso, Nuno Carinhas, Pedro Gil, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Tiago Guedes and Tiago Rodrigues.

His interpretation in Pedro Gil’s “Mona Lisa Show” earned him a nomination in 2009 for the Golden Globe award for Best Theatrical Actor, and his role in Tiago Rodrigues’ “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists” earned him another nomination in 2021. In 2018, the Portuguese Society of Authors chose him for its best-actor award for his role in the play Orphans, written by Dennis Kelly and directed by Tiago Guedes.

In addition to his work as an actor, he oversaw the organisation and direction of artistic projects with young non-acting talent and scientific researchers. He teaches scientific communication at the School of Doctoral Programmes of the New University of Lisbon.

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €8 on www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327, from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.