MALA VOADORA

 Not only did those people play a key role in History (or in some part of some History), it influenced the way they look at the very events in which they star. On the one hand, it is a political matter: the autonomy of a territory, a system of governance and ideological paradigms are at stake. On the other hand, there’s the life of each and every one of us: professional careers, positions of power, houses and properties, a certain living standard and a certain status... in short, a sense of “personal fulfilment”. In the play “Mozambique”, Jorge Andrade builds a narrative for what could have been the life that didn’t fall to him. He creates a fictional autobiography as if he had returned to Mozambique where he was born. And he’s forced to impose his own fictional history upon the country’s History so that the first one is convincing. Jorge Andrade is now a part of the History of Mozambique. — mala voadora

MALA VOADORA • As of 2017, mala voadora is a theatre company essentially engaged in producing plays, but whose activity includes a series of programmes taking place mainly in the former warehouse at Rua do Almada, in the heart of Porto. mala voadora was founded in 2003 by Jorge Andrade (director, actor and dramatist) and José Capela (scenic designer and architect), its two artistic directors. In 2013, they were joined by Vânia Rodrigues as management and programming coordinator, and by Joana Costa Santos who’s now the head of production. Aside from Portugal, mala voadora has performed in Germany, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Scotland, the USA, Finland, France, Greece, England, Lebanon and Poland.