Pêndulo

How do immigrant workers relate to the families they work for? And how are they affected by this relationship? How do they cope with having to leave their own homes to look after the homes of others? How does a country relate to the immigrants it welcomes? 

In PÊNDULO, Marco Martins works with a group of female carers and domestic workers whose lives are marked by a pendulum-like movement: between the outskirts and the centre of the capital (Lisbon), between their own homes and those of their employers, and between their country of origin and their country of destination, Portugal. PÊNDULO focuses on the nature of domestic work to discuss family relationships and the clash between different ways of life, contexts, expectations, dreams and daily routines. 

 The creation, in line with the stage work developed in recent years by Marco Martins, is based on the participation and commitment of a group of non-professional actors. It opens up space for the stories of those who are directly confronted with the precariousness implicit in the economic and social future of the world.