Campaínha de serviço
Female: 2, male: 2
During a series of power cuts, an elderly woman stages dinner for her absent husband—until darkness makes the “absence” answer back, and a new guest threatens to take more than her company.
A contemporary Portuguese chamber play about ageing, mental health, and economic precarity, where care becomes both intimacy and trap. For European stages, its minimal set and escalating ambiguity speak directly to shared anxieties about loneliness, inheritance, and what the dead still “own” in the living.
