“The Magic Lamp”: a Christmas show for families

On Christmas Eve an avalanche leaves the Le Pompom family without a home, and they end up knocking on the door of a grumpy lady at Bernardo’s house. Add a magic lamp and three genies who get almost everything wrong, and you have the story of “A Lâmpada Mágica”, an original play written and directed by Eduardo Gaspar, with fourteen actors on stage.

It mixes fantasy, a little romance and well-known songs, and its message is a simple one for the season: time with the people you love matters most. The show is in Portuguese, but the songs and slapstick carry children along.

Good to know

• Friday 4 December: 21:00.
• Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 December: 18:00, the better choice with younger children.
• Tickets through Ticketline.
• The congress centre is on the Avenida do Infante, a short walk from the centre of Funchal, and the Christmas lights will already be on.