In writing “Sem Medo”, Teresa Coutinho was inspired by Miguel Granja’s book, “Simão Sem Medo”. In this show, Simone, a brave girl, takes us on a journey through her dreamlike universe, in search of someone she has lost and her place in the world. Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Simone also goes through the looking glass, but in search of her grandmother, in a journey in which she confronts the experience of mourning, the specificity of the other and what courage and bravery really are. “Sem Medo” gives us back a plural world, with a strong video component, which allows us to expand the limits of physical space and thus take us through many of the places visited by the character and the obstacles she encounters on her “heroine’s journey”. A child’s contagious courage is measured by her openness to the unknown, reminding us that “not being afraid is being able to simultaneously look inwards and look at the other”.
