The world's smallest language takes to the stage at Campo Alegre this October

Alex Cassal & Paula Diogo premiere "The World's Smallest Language", a play to unveil the memories of minderico, mirandês and barraquenho, on 4 October at Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre, at 9.30pm.

The dramatists travelled through different Portuguese regions, and liaised with other artists and the living guardians of the language's memory in order to write the script for the performance.

According to Cassal and Diogo, the goal is to offer the play as a means of contemplating the future of languages, a sort of "less a museum and more a fair" to decode what lies ahead regarding these linguistic codes that are on the brink of extinction.

"The world's smallest language" is co-produced by Porto Municipal Theatre, National Theatre D. Maria II and Materiais Diversos.

Following the performances in Porto, on 4 and 5 October, at Theatre Campo Alegre, the play debuts in Lisbon, at Sala Estúdio of D. Maria II, on 5 March 2020.

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