Monólogo de uma mulher chamada Maria com a sua patroa
Event
“Monólogo de uma mulher chamada Maria com a sua patroa” (Monologue of a woman named Maria with her mistress) is the first creation of actress and stage director Sara Barros Leitão within the frame of Cassandra, the artistic structure she founded in 2020. The production’s title, “clandestinely stolen” from a text in “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (1971), sets its tone. Using a number of interviews and the archives of the first Domestic Workers’ Union in Portugal and of its national congress, which assembled seven thousand members in 1979, “Monólogo” tells the (hi)story of domestic work, structurally a women’s field. Little known, unrecognised and undervalued, this is also the (hi)story of women’s ability to organise themselves, assert their rights and achieve change. On stage, Sara Barros Leitão reclaims the voice of those women who clean and take care of the world, setting it in motion. Nuno Carinhas, in his return to the TNSJ as a set and costume designer, dresses and provides scenic surroundings to this woman who monologues in the hope of beginning a dialogue or a revolution.
