Ajidanha — Youth Association of Idanha-a-Nova (Portugal), was founded in 1998, promotes various activities cultural activities and workshops, within the scope of theater, dance and arts plastics. AJIDANHA was created with a scope not only linked to theater, but also extended to other cultural activities. The association was created by and for people open to cultural innovations. AJIDANHA enables the broad participation of population in cultural events, as well as promoting openness between various generations, whose benefits are many, for the youngest and youngest. The face of Ajidanha has been the theater group with around two dozen productions performed and presented at various festivais in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Itaiyand Germany.

The theater project “À Deriva” consists of a free adaptation from the theatrical text “Em Alto Mar” by Slawomir Mrozek, based on which aims to create its own dramaturgy, a comic and visual language, capable of dialoguing with the deep crisis of values (social and institutional) in which the country, and the world, are immersed. “À Deriva” tells us the story of two men and a woman lost on the high seas, after
what is believed to have been a natural catastrophe. The play’s plot revolves around the way these three castaways, confined to the space of a raft (raft) and at the same time surrounded due to the immensity of the sea, they face the problem of hunger. The three characters main groups, Fat, Médium and Thin, once the supplies have run out, make attempts at electoral campaigns, alliances, political attacks, call to self-
sacrifice, in a series of small and significant events to justify a fundamental choice: who should be eaten for the sake of of survival. A show characterized by nonsense, comedy visual and physical, and by the implicit satire of the social and political system that many Sometimes it turns out to be absurd and deeply unfair.

Language: Portuguese and English / Duration: 55 min

Author: Afree adaptation of the text “Na pelnym morzu” by Slawomir Mrozek / Director: José Carlos Garcia and Nadia Santos / Group members: Rui Pinheiro, Nuria Cuadrado, Bruno Esteves, Carla Sofia, Paulo Vaz, Isabel Silva