Figueira da Foz Agenda

Synopsis: Balthazar Fortuna is angry. With men, with life, with God and with himself. Fortuna, he only had the one in his name. And, above all, he is angry with women. With the three women in his life. So he returns to Xigovia – the small town in southern Mozambique where they live – with a clear objective: to kill. Yes, to kill. To kill bad luck, sweep away ill fortune and make amends for the life he chose to live, but no longer wants to.
In this short story, adapted for the stage with a dramaturgy by Mia Couto himself, Mia Couto and José Eduardo Agualusa reflect on the conflict between a peri-urban Mozambique, which hesitates between a ballast of ancestral traditions and practices crystallized in the dominant male mentalities, and a new country with galloping demography, full of young people who, each day, see less and less of themselves in the inherited cultural structures and the social practices they impose.

Authors: Mia Couto and José Eduardo Agualusa | Dramaturgy: Mia Couto | Performers: Angelina Chavango, Horácio Guiamba, Joana Mbalango, Josefina Massango, Violeta Mbilane | Staging: Clotilde Guirrugo e Vitor Gonçalves | Scenery: Evaro de Abreu | Costumes: Sara Machado | Choreography: Ademar Chauque | Music: Shigeru Umebayashi | Sound: Pedro da Silva Pinto | Light: Quito Tembe | Production Direction: Clotilde Guirrugo, Pablo Ribeiro

A co-production – Fernando Leite Couto Foundation, Eduardo Mondlane University – Culture Department

5,00 euros per person. The same are on sale at the CAE box office and at the Municipal Museum