Accessibility Portuguese Sign Language

At the beginning of the 1970s, a group of young people struggle to survive in a bumpy attempt to emigrate illegally. A young man, involved in scams, in debt and persecuted, poses as a smuggler to exploit the group who, like him, but for different reasons, cross the border by jumping. After a police chase, a tragic car accident ends up putting those who trusted his word at risk. Seriously injured and caught up in a police search, they will have to make difficult choices about who goes ahead and who stays behind.  

O Salto is an original research and dramaturgical project about Portuguese emigration in the 1960s and 1970s, which aims to lift the veil on a period of recent history that remains taboo - because of the misery and obscurantism in which it was lived, because of the oppression of the dictatorship or because it invokes the dissident theme of desertion to the colonial war. A drama inspired by real testimonies to record and deconstruct living memories of Portuguese history and build a tragic limit situation, which pushes the characters, in their struggle for better living conditions, to face death itself and reveal the deepest contradictions of human nature. 

Original text and staging Tiago Correia
Performed by Francisca Sobrinho, Francisco Pereira de Almeida, Teresa Mello e Sampayo, Zé Ribeiro, Sofia Vilariço and André Júlio Teixeira
Set Design Ana Gormicho
Costume Design Sara Miro
Light Design Pedro Nabais
Direction and Video Design Francisco Lobo and Pedro Carvalhinho
Original Music André Júlio Turquesa
Sound Design Vasco Zentzua
Light Operation Luís Silva
Sound Operation Mariana Guedelha
Character design Blue
Construction assistance Alya Ana Lopes
Pre-production (creation) Diana Estrela
Production Manager Inês Arinto
Communication Director Ana Rita Rodrigues
Communication Design Francisco Ribeiro


Duration 90'