Theatre director Mónica Calle from Portugal, seems to be “the best kept secret of the international performing arts”. She has been a celebrated artist in Portugal for decades, but her fame did not extend beyond the country’s borders until a year ago, not even amongst international artists and programmers of her generation. Fortunately, those days are behind us. In the film Casa Conveniente we get a picture of the neighborhood project and the new theater space she has developed since 2013, out of a multi-year prison project (started in 2009), set up in a disadvantaged district of Lisbon, Zona J of Chelas. This marks a return to the founding idea of Casa Conveniente, her company with the same name: working from the margins.
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