Festa de 15 Anos

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In Festa de 15 Anos (Quinceañera), the Portuguese playwright Mickaël de Oliveira joins his Brazilian counterpart Diego Bagagal in creating a show that intends to rethink the dynamics and repercussions in our contemporary neocolonialist practices. A wealthy Portuguese family adopts, out of necessity, a young Brazilian boy of indigenous descent and for whom they organise a quinceañera, a common social ritual in the Americas, a debutante ball to present him to Portuguese society, which will end up tainted by tragedy and horror. Mixing the private and the political, Festa de 15 Anos looks into the legacy of colonization, its moral heritage, fetishisation of minorities, and shows how difficult it is to create “syntheses that will comfort and set us free as individuals within a community”. In this allegory inspired by the horror cinema, Mickaël de Oliveira thickens the work undertaken in Sócrates Tem de Morrer (2018).