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A lesbian enters a bar. This woman is not named lesbian, as you can imagine. This woman ⎯ being a woman or not is also a question. Anyway, we'll get there. She enters a bar, lesbian. She wants to kiss who's there, but she doesn't like to be there, that is, she doesn't like ghettos, that is, she doesn't believe in labels. Once she had a severe alergic reaction to canned food, because she didn't believe in labels. Anyway, we'll get there. She begins a conversation with a nice dyke. With no common sense, she asks why do we need all these questions? She likes women, period. Anyway, we'll get there. 

Starting from the quote If you're not a lesbian, what is your name? (originally from an article published in the 1st edition of the lesbian magazine Lilás, in 1993), this show investigates about all these ill-reputed words that have been around for some time, used to describe certain people, communities and practices. Lesbians or not, we are all some thing ⎯ many things, even. We are either proud or ashamed of them, while others we don't think a lot about them. The show will feature a journey through various landmarks of lesbian literature – fictional and theoretical – to trace a story. A story of people? Words? Practices? Are there species Are there species on the verge of extinction amid all this? If we don't know the history of our country, how can we be of our nationality? What if we don't know the history of our lesbians?

Credits

Creation
Alice Azevedo

Cast
Alice Azevedo, Cristina Carvalhal, Teresa Coutinho

Light design
Teresa Antunes

Sound design
Sofia Queiroz

Costumes and scenography
Daniela Cardante

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Alice Azevedo has a degree in Artistic Studies – Performing Arts from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. She is currently attending the MA in Aesthetics and Art Studies at NOVA FCSH. In 2022, she created Literatura de Sodoma e de Safo, se faz favor, staged readings presented at the 5L festival. She created the Declaration of the World Theater Day for São Luiz Teatro Municipal in 2021. She co-created it in the same year with Lila Tiago NŌS SUNT – An Exhibition for Festival Interferes, as well as in 2020 Tágides Exemplares for TBA. As an actress, in 2021 she was Papisa Joana in the play Top Girls, at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. She was part of the productions of the company Sai de Cena between 2015 and 2018.

Alice Azevedo

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