O Começo Perdido: Mixtape #1

There is a word: Lusobourger. In the 1960s, the Portuguese migratory exodus created a national exclave in Luxembourg representing about one sixth of the population of the Grand Duchy. Portuguese-descendant playwright and stage director Pedro Martins Beja takes us back home and back to the past, and does so through a mixtape. In this recording of memories, Portugal is not so much a real, historical place, but a country far from childhood, imagined through words and sounds. A sound spectrum of memory, made up of fado echoes on a raucous radio and television commercials, the pig slaughter feast and tales of werewolves and witchcraft – the incongruous line-up of a cassette shared by young and old, by the ones who left and the ones who stayed. In “O Começo Perdido: Mixtape #1” (The Lost Beginning: Mixtape #1), we hear the fulfilled dreams and the shattered illusions of a country that lives outside its borders. Here, Pedro Martins Beja will dive not only into his old mixtapes, but also into the ones belonging to the members of a cast that combines Portuguese and Lusobourger actors. After “Castro's” recent tour of Luxembourg, this show is yet another reflection of the cooperation programme between Teatro Nacional São João and Théâtre National du Luxembourg.