A Broken Part

A BROKEN PART is a self-entitled catholic pop performance that brings opera, electronic music, dance and theatre together in an emotional and moving piece about displacement and on how it feels to not belong.

The show tells the story of a Portuguese saint, Elizabeth of Portugal, that goes out into the streets to care for the workers and feed the people. Legend says that one day she was caught by her husband leaving the house, whilst hiding bread in her apron. She lied to him, telling it was roses she was carrying and when she opened the apron the bread had been transformed into roses.

The legend of Elizabeth of Portugal – one of the most famous stories of saints that all children in Portugal learn from a very young age – then becomes the motif in each the company Big Odd explore their own personal stories about growing up in a Portugal in 80’s, leaving home, the memories of their southern-European mothers and the beautiful and strange universe of the worship of saints.

Big Odd is a recently formed performance collective of UK-trained Portuguese theatre makers looking deeply into their own Portuguese cultural roots and displacing them in a contemporary London environment. Their work blurs the lines between contemporary performance and conventional theatre. 
A BROKEN PART is one of the company’s first works that will form part of a trilogy about families, displacement and the sublime experience of theatre.

A Broken Part by Big Odd

Direction & Text Pedro Antunes, Mauro Matos   

Created & Performed by Milton Lopes, Pedro Antunes, Hugo Caroça, Ariana Lebron and Mauro Matos   

Dramaturgy Hugo Caroça   

Choreography Ariana Lebron 

Actor Coaching Milton Lopes

Costumes & Scupture by Philip Li  

Set Design & Construction by Max Ward  

Lighting Design by Jinhee Park    

Music by Ruído, Tiago de Almeida