The company was created a few years ago, then it stopped for a year and started its activity again a few months ago.
There are a table and chair on the scene, a laptop appears. This is already something, but no set design anywhere.
The story: unemployment office, men and women alternate in front of the officer to ask for work. The message is: there isn’t much work.

Obviously it’s talking about paid work…but I’m tearing my hair out! The unemployment officer could, should have been a comical figure. All he needed to do was touch the keys randomly, get him to ask a few senseless questions to those poor people who are looking for work. The “message” would have reached the audience more vividly!

Obviously it’s talking about paid work…but I’m tearing my hair out! The unemployment officer could, should have been a comical figure. All he needed to do was touch the keys randomly, get him to ask a few senseless questions to those poor people who are looking for work. The “message” would have reached the audience more vividly!

The initial presentation is, instead, very nice: each actor wears a predominant colour and one by one they present themselves saying: “I’m green, green like tree leaves, the green of plants”, “I’m brown, brown like the soil” and so on. A nice idea and a perfect performance. Probably they invented this scene themselves, they didn’t need to send out a “message”, it was a small theatrical pearl with a very strong message!

In the meeting after the performance, I start from: tell me something nice about Mozambique. Act out something nice about your country.
And one by one they begin: the trees that give fruit and shade, the sea that gives fish to eat and the soil where wheat grows.
The themes are always the same, but now they are smiling. And they move. Throughout the previous performance they remained seated, immobile, and composed around a desk, which was the set. Now instead they move, they act!

It was illuminating.

Everyone speaks Portuguese and knows how to read and write, some have even travelled, which here means going to Maputo or Tanzania. Ana Bela already has a passport.