Portugal is not a small country

Portugal is not a small country is a performance that discusses European dictatorships and the European presence in Africa, by looking at the Portuguese case, the country that had the longest fascist dictatorship in Europe - 48 years, and the longest colonial Empire - nearly 500 years. This analysis on the end of Portuguese colonialism is done through the real live testimonies of ex-Portuguese settlers that were part of the refugee exodus from Africa in 1974-76.

The script of the show was created through a verbatim process, meaning copied word for word, which resulted in the writing of a theatre text that faithfully uses the words of the people interviewed about their life in Africa during the Portuguese colonial period. The methodology combined the collection of testimonies of these people and a detailed historiographical research, creating a text that portrays the complexity of recent Portuguese history, particularly in the case of the end of Portuguese colonialism.