O Amor dos Infelizes
This is the story of a dwarf woman living in the shadow of the pity of a small provincial town’s inhabitants. The dwarf, only about eighty centimeters tall, with a gangly and clumsy walk, always moaning with pain, was for other women but a creeping being, like a child who never grows up. She wasn’t a person really, they said. Her existence was limited, in the eyes of others, to her deformity, her monstrosity, the insurmountability of that body. She lived on the remains of big people, on their possible love. The love of the unfortunate.
Public performance of a monologue by actress Margarida Gonçalves, created and adapted from the second chapter of the novel The son of a thousand men [O Filho de Mil Homens], by Valter Hugo Mãe.
Margarida Gonçalves, a regular presence in the productions of the company Teatro Bruto, impersonates the character of a dwarf, exploring territories between this character and the narrator, becoming a spectator of herself and of the events she narrates, being simultaneously the vehicle of broader and more complex meanings that the text proposes.
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texts adapted from Valter Hugo Mãe . staging, set design and costumes Ana Luena . cast Margarida Gonçalves . original music Peixe . stage lighting Rui Monteiro . executive producer Luís Puto