Miguel Loureiro, director

No Meio do Caminho... is based on The Divine Comedy, a medieval epic that narrates Dante's journey through the three places of the Beyond - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

Three actors are in an imprecise place, a room, an office, a studio or none of these, where they try to reproduce the text, the characters, the myths and the reasoning flaws linked to this masterpiece, which was not originally intended to be a drama, to be a scene.
One certainty: to cross three metaphysical projections: Hell, a place of condemnation and pain; Purgatory, where humans do penance and purify themselves; and Paradise, the pinnacle of redemption and the goal of adventure.
The coordinates of this undertaking are based on the following points: the point of the fable, the
Dante's pilgrimage to the Center of the World, with the dialogues, the actions, the passages from one circle to another, etc., which could well configure a medieval drama in stations, similar to sacred works of liturgical theater of the time; the moral point, the central question in the work. How to dialogue with Christian morality in our strongly secular times? The point of the allegory, in itself, the questions of the characters, what they represent of us, how do we approach this allegorical writing and claim it for ourselves, even if only for a few moments? Finally, the symbolic point, turning into theatrical material everything that is played out in the occult in the work, starting right away with the number 3: Holy Trinity, the 33 cantos, the tercenas... the spirals, the vortices, the straits, the bifurcations and the false steps of this place, halfway along our path as creators.