“Peça Feliz e Directa Sobre a Tristeza” stems from a vital and close encounter with the audience to talk about sadness and isolation. Two actors on stage with a fridge tell a story about sadness in a happy event, vibrant and full of life. The starting point is the short story “The Queen of the North” and its core issue: how to overcome clinical sadness? — around

which other questions swirl: What is it like to be foreign or different? How do we manage loneliness and isolation?

We invoke the need to look at sadness and depression in the eye, as something that is part of life and urges the need to activate body, memory, imagination, humour and better awareness from others. A piece for teenagers meant for a mixed audience, interested in practicing the things that are worth living for.