“Canções de Faca e Alguidar” (“Songs of Knife and Bowl”) is a musical, with dance, featuring songs describing jealousy and violent love in the 1980s as remembered by a group of women.
Vera Paz, who is responsible for the conception and artistic direction as well as acting in the musical, told The Macau Post Daily in an email on Wednesday that the show is “a musical performance about impossible loves, betrayed women, heartbreaks, in a tragic-comedy kitsch version.”
A statement sent separately by her defines the show as describing stories of jealousy and violent love, with choreographies full of rhythm and colour, carried out and interpreted by women.
It goes on to say that “Canções de Faca e Alguidar” covers multiple artistic disciplines, combining different repertoires and musical languages, depicting broken hearts, vengeful women, and impossible loves in a mundane festival where passion, jealousy, and vengeance are “’homegrown”.
The statement points out that the songs that make up the show (classical hits, rocks, boleros and ballads) were selected from a vast repertoire of international music including Portuguese, Brazilian, “Anglo-Saxon”, Cantonese, and Spanish.
Paz also says in her email that details of the show are “supposed to be a surprise!!!!”
The show is organised and produced by d’As Entranhas Macau – Associação Cultural, sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) with institutional support from the private Orient Foundation (FO).
The performances will be held today and tomorrow at 9 p.m. at Casa Garden in Praça Luis de Camões. Although both shows are sold out, “after 8:51 p.m. any uncollected tickets will be sold on the spot”, according to a follow-up email by Paz late last night.
