Letícia Velante is a producer, but she’s had to do “a bit of everything”. Morgana Santos makes the sets, David do Ó makes the sounds for the play, others are light technicians, not to mention the actors: they all bring the theatre show about the history and culture of the Roma people to life at the Assentos Primary School in Portalegre. These primary school pupils are also the scriptwriters: “they wrote the text in class”, explains teacher Fátima Rebalde.

“With the plays we do, the people watching can see that they might be doing the wrong things”, explains Letícia, the producer, who takes the opportunity to explain the meaning of the gypsy flag: “The blue means the sky, the green the grass, and the red wheel is the blood spilled in the Holocaust”.

This show is part of the Lungo Drom project, which proposes the construction of a Nomadic Museum from a set of mediation objects, made by different artists from different disciplines, with different communities. According to Cátia Terrinca, artistic director, “the project works with the whole community interested in reflecting on the history and culture of Roma communities, Roma people and non-Roma people, so that they can use these objects to think about issues such as migration, nomadism, mourning and prejudice.”