Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes is the story of a nine year old girl that crosses the city of Lisbon searching for the only person that can help her: the Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho. In the strange world called Lisbon we encounter the economic crisis, the heroic adventure of a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, roads crossed by cars and memories, the Discovery Channel, paedophiles, a photo of a violinist, a black panther, a Bulgarian scientist, the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and a girl too tall for her age whose mother called her Giraffe. Immersed in the darkness of the hopeful childhood imagination, this performance is fearful of what children think and angry at what the adults do.
Tiago Rodrigues is considered one of the most influential young artists in Portugal. As well as contributing to a large number of devised texts as a writer, director and performer, Sadness And Joy in the Life of Giraffes is one of a number of full-length plays. Tiago shares the artistic direction of theatre company Mundo Perfeito, alongside Magda Bizarro.
