América
A xenophobic young man invokes his family’s “good” emigration story—until his father and then his grandfather reclaim the truth, exposing how memory is edited into propaganda.
Three consecutive direct-address monologues at the edge of the stage, each with a small “evidence table” of objects: the son’s phones/tablet and militaristic audio; the father’s ashtray and cigarette ritual; the grandfather’s Parkinson medication and tea. Sound bridges between acts (from a martial march to chanson to Cole Porter) shift the emotional register—from aggressive certainty to reflective reckoning to fragile testimony. The staging tightens into a cross-generational courtroom where the witness stand keeps changing.
A sharply contemporary Portuguese response to Europe’s migration debates: it stages how racism is assembled from anecdotes, selective family pride, and cultural noise. Minimal cast, maximal impact—ideal for European audiences confronting the gap between “heritage” narratives and the real, often degrading history of mobility and labor.
