Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes is the story of a 9-year-old girl that crosses the city of Lisbon looking for the only person that can help her:the prime-minister Pedro Passos Coelho. In this show Tiago Rodrigues once again uses the theater to try to interfere with our perception of social and political realities, but also, of theater itself. He does it through the voice of a child that has to present a school work and takes on the exhaustive task of trying to explain the world.
That strange world called Lisbon includes the economical crisis, the heroic adventure of a teddy-bear with suicidal tendencies called Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a violin player that is only a photo now, a black panther, the school dictionary of Sampaio editions, the bulgarian scientist or russian playwright Anton Tchekhov, and a girl, too tall for her age, whose mum used to call giraffe.
Deep in the hopeful darkness of children’s imagination, this show fears what children think and rages against what adults do.