Post-Colonial Loves
Love is on stage as a possibility of profound transformation, so as not to perpetuate the worst in us.
— Sábado
Synopsis
Post-Colonial Loves aims to reflect on love as a political and utopian space discussing what it signified to love in the colonial space and what it still means today. This performance was devised from interviews of people that lived colonial times, but also the new generations that were born after the end of the Portuguese colonial Empire that are still conditioned by the colonial frame and thought.
This documentary theatre performance questions the politics of love in the colonial space and portrays the different ways how the violence of colonialism could act upon the past and present relationships. For this performance we collected testimonies of former Portuguese soldiers who have children with black African women in wartime, white Portuguese women who have fallen in love with black Africans belonging to the Liberation movements, and also the children of these relationships. With this performance, the theatre company Hotel Europa begins a new chapter in its investigation on colonialism, scrutinizing the love during the Colonial and Post-Colonial period.
Post-Colonial Loves initiates a new chapter of investigation by the company Hotel Europa extending the cycle of investigation of colonialism to the subject of love.
Creative Team
Creation André Amálio and Tereza Havlíčková / Hotel Europa
Movement Tereza Havlíčková
Performers André Amálio, Laurinda Chiungue, Pedro Salvador, Ricardo Cruz, Romi Anauel and Tereza Havlíčková
Musical creation and performance Pedro Salvador and Romi Anauel
Set Design Pedro Silva and Hugo Migata
Light Design and Technical Direction Carlos Arroja
In collaboration with Júlio Mesquita, Selma Uamusse and Toni Fortuna
Executive Production Joana Costa Santos
Production Hotel Europa
Co-production Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II
Support to the Artistic Residencies Materiais Diversos and DeVIR/CAPa
Acknowledgment to Bruno Huca, Sufaida Moyane, and all the people interviewed
Post-Colonial Loves is a project financed by República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
That filter, that ability to look to the other with love, it’s what ‘Post-Colonial Loves’ proposes.
— Público
© Filipe Ferreira
Calendar
This performance is not currently on stage.
Previous presentations
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19-23 JULY 2022
Post-Colonial Loves
MAPAS Fest, Canary Islands – Spain
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27-28 OCTOBER 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
Archa Theatre, Prague – Czechia
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22 OCTOBER 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
Moving Station, Plzen – Czechia
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6 JUNE 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
PT.19, Montemor-o-Novo – Portugal
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28 MAY 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
Thêatre de La Ville, Paris – France
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10-11 MAY 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
FITEI – Teatro do Campo Alegre, Oporto – Portugal
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7-24 FEBRUARY 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon – Portugal
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26 JANUARY 2019
Post-Colonial Loves
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo, Cartaxo – Portugal