Festa de 15 Anos

In ** Festa de 15 Anos ** [ Quinceañera ], the Portuguese playwright **Mickaël de Oliveira** joins Diego Bagagal, his Brazilian colleague, to conceive a show that intends to rethink the contemporary influence and repercussion of neocolonialist practices. A wealthy Portuguese family is compelled to adopt a young Brazilian boy of indigenous descent, for whom they organise a quinceañera , a debutante ball to present him to Portuguese society, which will end up tainted by tragedy and horror. Festa de 15 Anos looks into the legacy of the colonial empire, its moral heritage, the fetishisation of minorities, and shows how difficult it is to create “syntheses that will comfort us and set us free as individuals within a community”.