Keli Freitas
Go Back To Where You Came From
- 21.11 — 23.11 2024
- Performances
- Teatro São Luiz - Sala Mário Viegas
- €12 (See discounts)
- ages 12+
- 1h30 min
- Portuguese with surtitles in English and in Portuguese for the deaf and hard of hearing
Keli Freitas’s search for her Portuguese great-grandmother is a nuanced story of immigration and belonging.
What does it mean to be a citizen? To belong to a place, and only in that place have the right to exercise citizenship? Where is “my” place? And “your” place, where is that? Who has the power to define where someone belongs? Is it possible to locate the beginning of any story?
Keli Freitas is a Brazilian artist living in Portugal. In Go Back To Where You Came From, she goes looking for traces of her Portuguese great-grandmother while retracing her own journey – what she left behind and what she found here.
In this autobiographical piece, Keli shares the stage with Gigi – a friend she met in Portugal, who also has a story of migration in her genealogy. In sharing stories of the past, Keli and Gigi write their story of the present.
Credits
Written and directed by Keli Freitas Performed by Ana Gigi, Keli Freitas Dramaturgy and creative advisors Atena Barbosa, Mariana Ricardo Set and Costumes Elsa Romero & Manu Curtiss Light design and operator Ariene Godoy Sound operator Isaac Veloso Executive producer Maria Tsukamoto Produced by Trypas Corassão AC Coproduction residency O Espaço do Tempo, A Oficina Coproduced by O Espaço do Tempo, A Oficina and Cineteatro Louletano, as part of Projeto CASA
Keli Freitas has a Bachelor of Letters from Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro (PUC – Rio) and a Master of Portuguese Studies from Universidade Nova, Lisbon. She is a collector and researcher of anonymous correspondence and diaries. Highlights of her work include Osmarina Pernambuco não consegue esquecer (2019), Adicionar um lugar ausente (2020) and Take my breath away (2023). As guest author for the project Panos – Palcos Novos Novas Palavras she wrote fábrica de matar baleia. She was dramaturge for Baque, in partnership with Gaya de Medeiros,...
