There is theater whenever a stage lights up and challenges a community that comes to it. But there is one day that we symbolically dedicate to it. On March 27, the São João National Theatre opens its doors and invites the public to take guided tours behind the scenes of the São Bento da Vitória Monastery and the São João Theatre, not only as places of architectural value, but also as living spaces, where stage work germinates. After weeks of rehearsals at the Monastery, Nuno Cardoso lifts the veil from the immense mural he has converted the São João stage into, in an open technical rehearsal of Fado Alexandrino, by António Lobo Antunes. To round off the day, Nuno M Cardoso takes us through Crepúsculo, a series of staged readings included in the Theatre for Democracy project. It is precisely democracy and the dangers that beset its principles that are at the center of the concerns of four young European playwrights, from the not-too-distant past to a perhaps not-so-dystopian future. The foreigner, homophobia, racism, plutocracy, nationalism, a new language. “I want to tell you that I love you, with that word, with just that word.” - TNSJ