Regarding the new edition of the Gil Vicente Festivals, Marco Mendonça, Mário Coelho, and Mickaël de Oliveira are invited to share the fundamental characteristics of their work, contextualizing it in our time. "Theater" and "contemporary"... what words! seeks to promote contemporary theater in secondary and higher education schools in the municipality of Guimarães, to contemplate these two words and, from their possible relationships, formulate questions for unfinished answers.