Monday 23 November, 20:00

Joana Marques & Bumba na Fofinha

Booking Required

Performed by comedian Joana Marques alongside the comic persona Bumba na Fofinha, this show mines the comic and the unsettling in equal measure. The evening unfolds as a compendium of absurd confessions: Bumba na Fofinha inaugurates a mock confession booth revealing each character’s darker impulses, while Joana Marques assumes the role of self-appointed judge, scrutinising her own past under a satirical lens. The result is a staged road-trip of fractured family tales and black humour.

In Portuguese.

Rue de la Servette 2,
Switzerland
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Photo Credit: DR

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