Miguel Castro Caldas, Pedro Gil e Raquel Castro

This is a diptych inspired by Pedro Gil and Raquel Castro's first five years as parents. Together with Miguel Castro Caldas, came up with three characters: a daughter, a father and a mother. In the first part (2016), the daughter played packages with her parents, and she lost their parents every time and ended up living in a house with a couple who adopted her. One day, asleep in her room, she overheard her parents arguing and dreamt they had financial troubles and were going to abandon her, to cut costs. In the dream, the daughter was adopted by a couple who raised her and loved her in exactly the way her father and her mother raised her and loved her in reality. — Miguel Castro Caldas, Pedro Gil and Raquel Castro


Miguel Castro Caldas writes and stages theatre plays. He worked as dramaturge in several plays, occasionally translates, and teaches theatre, literature and martial arts. He won an honourable mention in 2005 for his work as dramaturge from the Portuguese Association of Theatre Critics and the 2017 Portuguese Society of Authors Award for Best Staged Portuguese Text with Se eu vivesse tu morrias [If I Were Living You’d Be Dead]. Some of his texts have been translated into Cantonese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, English and Italian.

Pedro Gil has been making theatre since 1999. He performs, writes, stages, researches and produces. As a director, he highlights the plays Don Juan Esfaqueado na Avenida da Liberdade [Don Juan Stabbed on Liberty Avenue] and O Inesquecível Professor [The Unforgettable Professor]. He is one of the artistic directors of Razões Pessoais.

Raquel Castro has a degree in theatre from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (2008) and a degree in nursing (2004). As a theatre performer, she worked with Pedro Gil, Gonçalo Amorim, Madalena Victorino, Giacomo Scalisi, Ricardo Gageiro, Mickael Oliveira, Nuno M. Cardoso, Mónica Calle, Rui Pina Coelho, Tónan Quito and Tiago Rodrigues. She has been producing and creating plays since 2013, the most recent of which are Olhar de Milhões [The Stare of Millions] (2017), Turma de 95 [Class of 95] (2019) and A Morte de Raquel [Rachel’s Death] (2020). She is one of the artistic directors of Razões Pessoais.