Amores Pós-Coloniais

Amores Pós-Coloniais begins a new research chapter for the company Hotel Europa extending the research cycle on colonialism to the topic of love. The documentary theatre show intends to reflect on love as a political and utopic space discussing what it meant to love within the colonial and post-colonial space, and how the violence of colonialism conditioned love relationships. This work takes as its methodology, an intersection between archival research and a gathering of actual testimonies. The research considers testimonies with ex-Portuguese soldiers who had children with women in Africa during wartime, women of Portuguese origin who fell in love with black men belonging to the Liberation movements, the relationships that result from the da relations between African countries and East European countries, and the children resulting from those relationships, attempting to scrutinize what love meant during the colonial and post-colonial periods.

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