From the acclaimed director Pedro Costa and following his award-winning film “Vitalina Varela”, the premiere of “As Filhas do Fogo” (Daughters of Fire‘), a show that merges cinema, music and theatre. Pedro Costa collaborates with Os Músicos do Tejo and proposes a stage format that once again places the emphasis on postcolonialism.
(Cantoras)
Anastácia Carvalho
Karina Gomes
Elizabeth Pinard
“As Filhas do Fogo” follows the story of three young cape-verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the volcano Fogo. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through music and singing.
Nuno Mendes e Álvaro Pinto (violinos), Paul Wakabayashi (viola)
Pedro Massarrão (violoncelo), Vicente Magalhães (contrabaixo)
Pedro Castro (oboé e flauta de bisel), Marta Araújo (cravo)
Marco Oliveira (guitarra), Marcos Magalhães (órgão e direcção)
No demon comes to greet the girls, instead, a group of joyful musicians challenges their will to resist the charms of this new deceiving society. Projected in light and shadow, the sinister face of a jester appears, like a prophet, guiding us through alleys, days and nights of suburban slums, where thousands of migrants scarcely survive. Later, the three sisters reappear, tired and disillusioned, as if carrying the whole world on their shoulders: they have now joined the working class. They are now cleaners. Once again, the band of musicians appears, encircling them.
The voices of the girls come together in a desperate prayer, sung in their native Creole dialect. Falling under the spell of a melancholic lullaby, the sisters are separated: the two youngest disappear through space, while the oldest sings: “in light of all the misery, people just throw their unbearable lives away…”.
