THE LOVER
from Harold Pinter 2025Sara and Rodrigo are a couple, but they also have lovers.
In their intimacy, seemingly full of complicity and love, yet far removed from social norms, they discovered different ways of relating, keeping desire alive and filling their daily lives with challenges and conflicts.
Harold Pinter’s The Lover is the starting point for the new creation of the Mákina de Cena, inviting an atypical immersion into the marital lives of others, their tensions and reflections of love and passion, where everything is questionable and humanity emerges from lies and eroticism. Operating in a dimension of strangeness and eventual modesty, the spectator-voyeur is invited to reflect on their own experiences and the state of their erotic-loving relationships.
©João Catarino
©João Catarino
©João Catarino
©João Catarino
©João Catarino
©João Catarino
©João Catarino
©Carolina Santos
Cast & Creative
Text by Harold Pinter
Translation Pedro Marques (ed. Relógio d’Água)
Artistic Direction, Staging and Set Design by Carolina Santos
Performance and Co-creation by José Leite, Marlene Barreto and Rafaella Ambrozio
Assistant Director Rafaella Ambrozio
Sound Design Carolina Santos and Marco Martins
Lighting André Pereira and Carolina Santos
Technical Operation André Pereira
Set and Costume Construction Mákina de Cena, Nuno Guerreiro and Diana Obada
Production and Communication Ana Palmeiro
Financial Administration Verónica Vitorino
Networks Martim Santos
Photo and Video João Catarino
Design Mákina de Cena
Design Intern Rui Mourão
Production Mákina de Cena
Co-production Cineteatro Louletano / Loulé Municipality Theatre Support Grant and Teatro do Eléctrico
Partnership Mescla – Associação Cultural
Support Loulecópia, RUA FM and Jornal Barlavento
Teatro do Eléctrico is a structure supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport / Directorate-General for the Arts, by Cineteatro Louletano/City Council of Loulé and by the City Council of Lisbon.
Mákina de Cena is a structure financed by the Portuguese Republic – Directorate-General for the Arts and by the Municipality of Loulé.
Plus 16 / 65 MIN
Presentations
Previously at
2026 | Faro, Teatro das Figuras
2026 | Lagoa, Auditório Carlos do Carmo
2026 | Vila do Bispo, Festival Estar
2025 | Loulé, Cerca do Convento do Espírito Santo
