Fidjo di Tchon

Joãozinho da Costa

Critical of the conduct of societies in relation to the garbage they accumulate and the unconscious behavior of citizens, the play is built from the arrival in Bissau of a Guinean who lives in Europe. This character is returning to his home country after 18 years, eager to know and rediscover all the places. In a scenario that simulates the garbage scattered through the streets of Bandim, with clothes making up the accumulation, he appears to hand his trash to the African to throw away. It is through this act, an attempt to clear himself of the responsibility for the garbage that is piling up, that the stories of the beautiful girl who walks the streets in search of a young man with money and the means to support her, the Ministry of Justice employee with Francosefa notes in his hands and unconcerned with all those around him, the man who makes his living by keeping a place in the queues at the Portuguese Embassy, known to all as the black consul, and the trip of a young man to the Immigration Office to get his documents processed by a cohort who works at the institution, are told. The stage is invoked by bodies in movement that take the form of brushes and paint the blank canvases with their dances, with Guinea-Bissau melodies as a musical background and projections of videos and images of the streets of Guinea-Bissau.