Babel

We are in a bus terminal or train station, or perhaps in an airport. Is it a place of arrival or departure? All we know is that it is a place of waiting (which the theatre also is, is it not?). The characters that inhabit it tell stories to one another, while waiting for their time of departure to an unknown location. A place of impasse or questioning? Passion or communion? Friction or compromise? Nuno Cardoso brings together a number of guests, such as creators, actors, students and members of foreign communities who reside close to our theatres, to assemble with them a text that will include excerpts from The Lusiads as referents and/or counterpoints. Babel is a journey, after all, a symbolic and inquisitive one, through the Portuguese community and language, in which the conjunctions and deviations between Camões’ founding text and the demands of our time are mapped out. What sort of lusiads are we, today?