“MEMORY LANES” is a Staged Reading combining stories by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov with photo memories by Portuguese artist Nuno Vieira.
The 3.11 photo studio at LX factory is magically transformed into a dimly-lit phototheatre venue where human destinies cross…

Night 1, March 16 at 20.00
5 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT based on Nabokov’s first novel “MASCHENKA” (1926). In the shadow of the Berlin railway station, JÁ creates a photodiary reminiscence of youth, love, nostalgia and hope for seven immigrants living in a tenement house in Berlin and whose longing for a better life becomes urgent in spring. One night Lev Ganin, one of the lodgers, discovers from a photograph that his long-lost first love, Maschenka, now the wife of his former neighbour, will arrive at the train station in just five days’ time…

Night 2, March 17 at 17.00
SPRING IN FIALTA (1936). Victor and Nina are two Russian expatriates who have an off-and-on affair over the course of fifteen years between 1917 and 1932 and who meet – for the last time – in a seaside resort called Fialta…

MUSIC (1932). One evening, in the drawing room of a society hostess, the sudden, unexpected sight of the woman he used to love, together with the sound of a piano, send a man tumbling down memory lane. How will the woman react? How will memory affect her?

With Freddie Douglas, Martim de Mesquita Guimarães, Nuno Vieira, Aurelia Assan, Tania Kumeda, Rosa Gavin, Dan Cotterall, Pat Butler.

Direction and set design Tania Kumeda

Artwork, Photography and Lighting design Nuno Vieira

Produced by JA International Theatre & Nuno Vieira Photography

Voice coach Margarida Rocha e Melo

Production Suresh Nampuri

Special gratitude to Nicole Hutcheson