Illusion

Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion, based upon texts by Federico García Lorca, in early 2014. The 119th company’s show was no ordinary show, for in the cast there were 59 non-actors, amateurs and theatre students. The actress and director Sofia Marques documented the whole process: since the first candidate interviews, the cast selection, the rehearsals, the premiere, up until the last presentation of the play. Illusion documents this unusual experience and reveals the way in which Cintra directs his new accomplices in order to bring to life Lorca’s Illusion. More than delusion of the senses or blurred utopia, the illusion that lives in this film is closely linked to dreams, desires, wills, fantasies, and its chances of substantiation.