Against Brexit and the restrictions on international travel imposed by the pandemic, the family is tending to expand. There are no longer only English people in the family. That’s how we understand families: plural, diverse, open to transatlantic marriages or others. The usuals are here – such as Chris Thorpe and Alex Kelly – but we welcome the American James Baldwin, to whom we will give voice through a theatrical reincarnation, and the Brazilian Alex Cassal, who wrote inFausto for mala voadora. This 7th edition of Uma Família Inglesa includes in its programme the shows by mala voadora Has the American dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro? (a re-enactment of the debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley), The Future Show (based on the script The Future Show by Deborah Pearson), Tele-Culinária (text by Chris Thorpe for the flying suitcase), InFausto (text by Alex Cassal for the flying suitcase) and Estação de Outono, a creation by Cláudia Gaiolas and Paula Diogo in dialogue with Alexander Kelly and Chris Thorpe.
November 18 to 22 ‧ mala voadora