A pop-ritualistic concert-spectacle about the experiences of an Afro-Saloia artist from the rural African suburbs of Lisbon, who dreams of singing. In a world where pills promise physical and mental balance, what if that balance came from sound? On stage, between the pop star, the girl from the neighborhood, and the priestess, each song becomes a tool for social, political, and personal issues, interwoven with her own story, between fiction and reality where the final score is different with each performance. Pils, Pils, Plis. Please!
Credits
Direction and performance
Isabel Zuaa
Musical Creation and Sound Design
Carolina Varela
Creative Support
Cleo Diára
Dramaturgy Support
Melissa Rodrigues, Mauro Hermínio
Movement Support
Piny, Vânia Dutel Vaz
Costume Design
Eloísa d'Ascensão
Video
Heverton Harieno
Production
Joana Costa Santos
Administration
Agência 25
Co-production
Vila Flor Cultural Centre, Porto Municipal Theatre, Singular Festival
Co-production Residency
O Espaço do Tempo, Centro de Criação de Candoso
Support
Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport | DGARTES – Directorate-General for the Arts, Casa da Dança
© Marcelo Hallit
Isabél Zuaa is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Lisbon, with origins in Angola and Guinea-Bissau, and experiences in Brazil. Zuaa creates dramaturgies in which bodies like her own occupy centrality and protagonism, proposing narratives where presence, identity, and memory intertwine. Through the artistic object as a living archive, she summons biographies and references to generate expansive questions. In 2019, she founded the AURORA NEGRA collective with Cleo Diára and Nádia Yracema.Isabél was highlighted in BANTUMEN's POWERLIST 2021, 2022, and 2025 as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the Lusophone world.