The plot of the "Auto of India", written in 1509, addresses the subject of adultery. A woman, called Constança, is unfaithful to her Husband who leaves for India, driven by the desire for quick and easy enrichment. Initially, the woman worries because she is not yet sure whether the husband leaves or not. Having dispelled this anguish by the news of the departure brought by the maid, her servant, Constança rejoices and indulges in a life of adulterous pleasure with her lovers: the Castilian braggart (Juan de Zamora) and a former Portuguese suitor named Lemos. However, three years after the departure, comes the announcement of the unwanted return of the Husband, a fact that infuriates Constança very much...The temporal and spatial circumstances are those of the first decade of the sixteenth century, when, behind the glory and the epic façade of overseas expansion, it was already possible to perceive the profound changes, not all positive, that this expansion was provoking in the Portuguese society.
Satirical farce
DURATION: 60 minutes
DIRECTION: Casimiro Simões
CAST: Sílvia Ferrete as Constança
Sónia Valente as Maid
Fernando Silva as Lemos
Roberto Moreira as Juan de Zamora
Casimiro Simões as Husband
LIGHT AND SOUND: Carlos Duarte
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