A MINHA AVÓ ERA AVIADORA is a play that takes the relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter as its starting point, opening up a space where memory and imagination blur. Through the granddaughter’s eyes, the story unfolds between reality and fantasy, transforming a familiar figure into an unlikely, larger-than-life heroine capable of traversing geographies and time and surpassing what seems possible to us.

The settings and characters traverse cultures, references, and landscapes in an educational adventure between the lived and the invented: a dragon on the Great Wall of China, an unexpected landing in India, an escape under a red moon in Kenya. The show evokes a time of prohibitions when it was said that “girls couldn’t fly planes,” but affirms the courage of those who decide not to accept such limits.

Designed for audiences ages 5 and up, the show A MINHA AVÓ ERA AVIADORA stimulates the imagination and active participation of those watching. It is conceived and performed by Maria Ana Filipe, a graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, who, since 2002, has collaborated with organizations such as Teatro da Comuna and A Mala Voadora, based on texts by authors such as Samuel Beckett, William Shakespeare, Lídia Jorge, and Gonçalo M. Tavares, and has also worked in television, on series and soap operas.