Now more than ever do we need to champion narratives about immigration that provoke empathy and compassion!
WHERE JUDAS LOST HIS BOOTS...AND OTHER WORDS
“Where Judas Lost His Boots… And Other Words” is a lively one-woman show about immigration, belonging and words that cannot be translated into English. The show features Portuguese as well as English, and as a result we have been invited to perform at Voila Festival 2025, a panlingual theatre festival across various theatres in November this year.
Who we are:
Foreign Object is an emerging theatre company, utilising the tangible (puppets, masks, objects, bodies) to explore narratives about heritage, migration, generations and is inspired by folklore, verbatim and memoir.Writer & performer: Inês Santos Belmonte is a Portuguese-born, British-grown writer and actor with a passion for poetry and identity driven storytelling. Belmonte writes and performs her own work from plays to spoken word pieces; always writing for her younger self and the stories that she enjoyed reading in her childhood.
Director and co-creator: Lillith Freeman is a Czech-Jewish & British director and artist. She specialises in object theatre, puppetry, and playful storytelling. Her work is sensory, expressive and weaves heartfelt narratives around dynamic visual images and inventive use of objects.
THE SHOW
'Onde Judas perdeu as botas’ -a Portuguese expression for being in the middle of nowhere. This lively one-woman show melts together different languages, story, & memoir into a playful exploration of what it is to belong. Objects become puppets; Portugal becomes the South coast of England; sardines become truths; words become weapons; and home remains very far away.Writer & performer Inês Santos Belmonte reimagines her preteen immigration to the U.K., taking the audience with her through the intricate struggle and joy of learning a new language.It utilises heavily pan-lingual storytelling, and in her struggle to learn English, brings in words from languages all over the word that cannot be directly translated. Ultimately, she finds her own unique way of belonging by not belonging. This project is really important, it opens up dialogues about the experience of immigration, promoting empathy and understanding, which is needed now more than ever.
Where will the money go?
- If we hit our minimum, this will cover the festival participation fee, paying for a technician, paying the perfomer.
- If we hit our full target, this will then pay for new props, marketing to help with ticket sales and pay our assistant producer, pay for a vehicle to transfer the set.
- Any extra funds will go towards our future plans of taking the show to international puppetry festivals, for which we have already begun submitting applications.
- Festival fee: £150
- Technician fee £250
- Props expenses £50
- Actor payment £266
- Marketing and producer costs £150
- Set Transfer £50
Find us here
https://www.instagram.com/foreign.object/
