Samuel Adamson’s Tudo Sobre a Minha Mãe, based on Pedro Almodóvar’s film, focuses on the life of Manuela – a nurse, a single mother, who witnesses the death of her son on his 17th birthday. Manuela sets out on a journey in search of the father of her son and, in this recovering of the past, she meets an old friend with whom he prostituted himself, she meets a nun and begins to work as an assistant to a well-known theatre actress. Tudo sobre a minha mãe is a play about the unconditionality of feminine strength – about what it is to be a woman (peripheral or not, racialized or not, cis or transgender). It is part of the dramaturgy of these women, who, by being so unconditional, make the concreteness of space and cinematographic time fall, making them symbols of survival and resistance. Daniel Gorjão intends with this show to give stage and voice to issues that are socially under discussion in the media agenda, as is the case of gender identity and sexual orientation, allowing a reflexion by the audience.
