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Ngungunyane’s grandchildren – Theatrical performance
3:35 CAT | 18 January 2019
Ngungunyane’s grandchildren – Theatrical performance
Date and Time: Friday 8 February, 20h30
Address: Centro Cultural Franco Mocambicano
Ngungunyane's grandchildren is a project that goes beyond borders. Borders of time and space. Borders of the look. The project began in 2015, with the meeting between João Brites and Mia Couto during the Mozambican writer's visit to Portugal and Palmela. At this point, Mia was about to finish the novel he eventually launched in October of that year, "Women of Ashes", the first part of a trilogy entitled "The Sands of the Emperor", and named a feature of the story made up of words she was concluding: different ways of looking at an event. Reality does not exist, there are only points of view.
It is in this branching that we imagine this tri-shared artistic object from the points of view of these artists who are descendants of this historical universe. These fictional grandchildren find themselves not to create a documentary object on the life of the emperor, but to create three artistic objects from the same matrix but with different poetics and dramaturgies.
The involvement of these three countries and this group of artists arises from an increasingly urgent desire to find a new way of looking at and analyzing the world.
About Ngungunyane
Ngungunyane, also known as Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, N'gungunhana, or Gungunhana Reinaldo Frederico Gungunhana, (born 1850 – died 23 December 1906) was a tribal king and vassal of the Portuguese Empire, who rebelled, was defeated by General Joaquim Mouzinho de Albuquerque and lived out the rest of his life in exile, first in Lisbon, but later on the island of Terceira, in the Portuguese Azores.
Duration: 60 minutes
Date and Time: Friday, February 8 2019 at 20h30
Entrance: 350 MZN; 250 MZN (for cultural club members) and 150 MZN (for students)
Address: Centro Cultural Franco Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
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