Niet Hebben (Rejected Letter)

From well known texts such as Pero Vaz de Caminha’s «Carta do Achamento do Brasil», Kafka’s «Letter to His Father», Oscar Wilde’s «Letter to Bosie» , Mariana Alcoforado’s «Portuguese Letters» and «The New Portuguese Letters» by Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa, among others, blah blah blah, this rejected letter aims to rethink some themes such as feminism, war and post-colonialism in a world where Facebook and Twiter rule. On stage, like, there’s this actress willing to write a letter like she talks. As she talks. Blaming herself of sifting through other people’s correspondence, she thinks about what she’s read on some of these letters (as she shouldn’t, in the quiet, instead of just chillin’on Instagram or taking selfies). A letter that can be either a speech or an email, unafraid of the past, eyes set on the future.

Illustration: Catarina Lee