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SHOWS
AGROPEÇA
TEATRO DA VERTIGEM
DATES:
||| 27/02 a 29/03/2026
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 6 p.m.
LOCATION:
||| ESPAÇO CULTURAL ELZA SOARES
Alameda Eduardo Prado, 460-474 - Campos Elíseos
TICKETS:
||| Tickets: R$ 40/ R$ 20 (meia) - By SYMPLA
Duration: 90 min
THEATER
Sinopsis
In an arena that is sometimes a rodeo, sometimes the centre of a farm, characters face each other at the dinner table or in front of a fierce bull, trying to decipher a country that ‘ruminates’ and ‘agonises’ in search of its own destiny. It is unclear whether what we see is a portrait of a cruel and conservative Brazil or an old children's fable that helped shape the national imagination.
Credits
A creation by TEATRO DA VERTIGEM
Text: Marcelino Freire
Concept and General Direction: Antonio Araújo
Co-direction: Eliana Monteiro
Technical Coordination and Lighting Design: Guilherme Bonfanti
Performers: Andreas Mendes, James Turpin, Mawusi Tulani, Paulo Arcuri, Tenca Silva, Lola Fanucchi, Victor Salomão and Vinicius Meloni
Collaborating Artists: Nicolas Gonzalez (1st and 2nd Phase), Lee Taylor (1st Phase)
Dramaturgy: Bruna Menezes
Dramaturgy Assistant: João Crepschi
Space Concept: Antonio Araújo
Set Design: Eliana Monteiro and William Zarella Junior
Associate Sound Designers: Randal Juliano, Guilherme Ramos and Kleber Marques
Costumes: Awa Guimarães
Makeup: Tiça Camargo
Musical Direction and Original Soundtrack: Dan Maia
Vocal Direction: Lucia Gayotto
Videography: Vic von Poser
Physical Training: Castilho and Ricardo Januário
Physical Training (Phase 1): Fabrício Licursi
Movement Direction: Castilho
Assistant Director and Stage Director: Gabriel Jenó
Lighting and Programming Assistants: Francisco Turbiani
Musicians: Dan Maia and Ricardo Saldaña
Lighting Operation: Felipe Bonfante
Audio Operator: Fernando Sampaio
Projection Operators: Gabriel Theodoro
Camera Operators: André Voulgaris
Follow Spot Operators: Igor Beltrão and Giovanni Matarazzo
Lighting Assembly: Felipe Bonfante, Igor Beltrão, Raphael Mota, Danilo Punk, Jhones Pereira, Tarsis Braga (Hair) and Lucas da Silva
Stagehands: Ayra Flores, Flávio Rodrigues and João Portela
Set Designer: Zé Valdir Albuquerque
Set Assembly, Painting and Treatment: Elástica SP Cenografia
Seamstresses: Francisca Rodrigues and Cleonice Barros Correa
Lasso Lessons: Gui Sampaio
Ox Skulls: Vinicius Fragata
Yoruba Translator: Mariana de Òsùmàrè
Directing Intern: Julie Douet Zingano
Photos: Lígia Jardim
Documentary Filmmaker: Padu Palmerio
Graphic Designer: Guilherme Luigi
Press Relations: Canal Aberto
Production Intern: Bento Carolina
Production: Corpo Rastreado – Leo Devitto and Gabi Gonçalves
Mini-bio
The Teatro da Vertigem theatre group, founded in 1992 in the city of São Paulo, develops artistic work based on characteristic elements, ranging from the use of unconventional spaces in the city, to the creation of shows based on the personal testimonies of its members and a collaborative process between actors, playwrights, directors and other creators, to research into the processes of interference in the viewer's perception.
Among the shows in the group's history are O Paraíso Perdido (Paradise Lost), from 1992, staged at the Santa Ifigênia Church; O Livro de Jó (The Book of Job), at the Humberto Primo Hospital, from 1995; Apocalipse 1,11 (2000), at the former Presídio do Hipódromo; the Trilogia Bíblica, presented in its entirety in 2002; the artistic residency at Casa Nº1, in a partnership between Patrimônio Histórico, the Municipal Secretariat of Culture and the group, in 2003, which served as the basis for the creation of the following project: BR-3.
ANTÍGONA TRAVESTI
RENATA CARVALHO
DATE:
||| 11/03 - 21H
LOCATION:
||| VERTIGEM
Duration: 50 min
THEATRR
Sinopsis
Tebas é uma megalópole que vive um regime autoritário, religioso e armamentista, depois que Creonte – o poderoso de Tebas - deu um golpe de Estado fraudando eleições e ocupando as ruas com as forças militares e policiais.
Polinice, a filha mais querida de Antígona, uma jovem travesti de 23 anos, é brutalmente assassinada no centro de Tebas.
A traviarca Antígona, uma travesti com mais de 40 anos, tem uma ONG de direitos humanos e LGBTQIAPN+, mas luta principalmente por travestis e mulheres trans, além de uma casa onde acolhe as que foram expulsas de suas casas.
Antígona ao tentar as honras fúnebres e de sepultura a Polinice é informada do decreto de Creonte, proibindo que ela seja enterrada com vestes femininas e seu nome é negado na lápide.
Antígona (Renata Carvalho) convoca uma reunião entre todas as travestis e mulheres de Tebas
No elenco, um Coro formado por 6 travestis e mulheres trans.
Credits
Directed and written by: Renata Carvalho
Lighting Design: Juliana Augusta Vieira
Production: Gabi Gonçalves, Rodrigo Fidelis – Corpo Rastreado
Cast: Andreas Mendes, Daniela D’eon, Renata Carvalho, Suzy Muniz, Thays Villar and Wallie
Press Office: Canal Aberto – Márcia Marques, Daniele Valério and Carina Bordalo
Mini-bio
Actress, director, playwright, and social scientist specializing in Transpology. Founder of Monart (National Movement of Trans Artists) and of the “Trans Representation Manifesto,” which advocates for the inclusion of travesti/trans bodies in spaces of artistic creation and calls for a pause in the practice of “Trans Fake” — when cisgender artists portray trans/travesti characters.
As a transpologist (a trans anthropologist), she has been studying the travesti/trans body since 2007, when she became a volunteer prevention agent for STIs, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and hepatitis with the Municipal Health Department of Santos, working specifically with travestis and transsexual women in prostitution — the same year she came to recognize herself as travesti.
This transpology highlights the social, media-driven, criminalizing, hypersexualizing, pathologizing, religious, and moral constructions that permeate trans/travesti bodies, in which art — and consequently artists — have also been/are responsible for shaping this imagery within the collective imagination.
The artist places her travesti body as both subject and object of research, while debating and denouncing the absence of these bodies in artistic spaces.
ANONIMATO
CIA MUNGUZÁ DE TEATRO
DATE:
||| 07, 08, 14 E 15/03 - 16H
LOCATION:
||| COMPLEXO CULTURAL FUNARTE
Alameda Nothmann, 1058, Campos Elísios/ SP
Duration: 90 min
THEATER
Sinopsis
Imagine that today you received a very good reason to go to a certain place. Imagine that, like you, each of the nearly 8 billion inhabitants of the planet also received a reason to go to that same place. What would take approximately 8 billion human beings from their homes at the same time? What would take the nearly 8 billion inhabitants of the planet to the same place? Would it be a single reason? Would it be 8 billion different reasons?
At this moment, the reasons matter less than the meeting. Today, all we have to offer is a common place for this meeting.
A woman who buries her roots in the ground and becomes a tree. A woman who detaches herself from the ground and ascends to the heavens. A popcorn seller. A dream seller. A man trying to balance himself on top of Utopia. Someone who works. Someone who is all of these things together. And someone who hides.
At a historic moment when everything separates us, we want the point that unites us. ‘anonimATO’ is about trying to find common ground.
About killing and giving birth to theatre. About killing and giving birth to society. About killing and giving birth to each one of us.
Credits
Director: Rogério Tarifa
Screenplay: Pedro das Oliveiras
Dramaturgy: Verônica Gentilin
Texts (basis for dramaturgy): Cast, Rogério Tarifa and Verônica Gentilin
Cast: Fabia Mirassos, Léo Akio, Lucas Bêda, Marcos Felipe, Paloma Dantas, Pedro das Oliveiras, Sandra Modesto, Virginia Iglesias
Musical direction and original soundtrack: Carlos Zimbher
Vocal interpretation direction and musical composition for the choir: Lucia Gayotto, Natália Nery
Work group (butô): Marilda Alface
Scenic collaboration: Luiz André Cherubini
Band: Daniel Doc - guitar, Flávio Rubens - clarinet, saxophone and fiddle, Nath Calan - drums, João Sampaio - substitute guitar, Luana Oliveira - substitute drums
Musical pre-production: Daniel Doc
Costumes: Juliana Bertolini
Costume assistant: Vi Silva
Inflatable costume construction: Juan Cusicanki
Set design: Fábio Lima, Lucas Bêda, Luiz André Cherubini, Zé Valdir
Props and puppets: Zé Valdir
Graphic poetry (signs, carts and flags): Átila Fragozo - Paulestinos
Stilts training: Fábio Siqueira
Stagehands: Fábio Lima, Mariana Beda, Tony Francesco
Knife thrower: Tony Francesco
Executive production: Cia. Mungunzá, Gustavo Sanna - Complementar Produções
General production: Cia. Mungunzá de Teatro
Mini-bio
Cia. Mungunzá is one of the most innovative companies on the Brazilian theatre scene. Created in 2008, the group has been developing continuous scenic research for sixteen years, aligning art, culture and life, building a narrative and an authorial language, with productions that have great power to communicate with the audience.
Mungunzá has established itself as a group that works with guest directors, a factor that helps to keep the scenic processes alive. In its research, it seeks polyphony and hybridism in artistic languages, proposing staging as dramaturgy and performance as acting. It promotes artistic creation as a political and social practice.
The group went beyond its boundaries in 2017 by creating the Mungunzá Container Theatre, an artistic occupation and headquarters for the group, which is currently one of the most vibrant cultural spaces in the city of São Paulo. It is reverberating around the world with its powerful and poetic cultural management, which has an impact in contexts of extreme social vulnerability, added to its sustainable, transformative and community-based architecture.
killed the family and went to the movies
GRUPO XIX DE TEATRO
DATE:
||| 14/03 - 16H
LOCATION:
||| ZONA FRANCA TEATRO
R. Alm. Marques de Leão, 378 - Bela Vista/SP
Duration: 80 min
THEATRE
Sinopsis
In a country where cinemas have been transformed into Pentecostal churches, two pioneering Brazilian films, released in 1968 and 1969, address homoaffective themes. Do these stories belong to a conservative black-and-white past, or are they omens of a blood-stained present?
The classics by Júlio Bressane and Djalma Limongi (1950-2023) meet at the intersection of cinema and theatre, shaping a unique experience. The audience recreates the narrative, blending what was filmed with what happens live. Two films, one play, two women, two men and a narrator intertwine past and present in the search for a more diverse future.
Credits
Direction and dramaturgy: Luiz Fernando Marques (Lubi)
Assistant director: Juliana Mesquita
Collaborating artists and performers: Bruna Mascarenhas, Clara Paixão, Carlos Jordão, Lucas Rocha, and Walmick de Holanda
Set design and video editing: Luiz Fernando Marques (Lubi)
Costumes, make-up and art direction: Bruna Mascarenhas, Clara Paixão, Carlos Jordão, Juliana Mesquita, Lucas Rocha, Luiz Fernando Marques Lubi and Walmick de Holanda
Lighting, sound and video technician: Luiz Fernando Marques (Lubi) and Juliana Mesquita
Support technician: Roberto Oliveira
Executive production: Andréa Marques
Mini-bio
Since 2001, Grupo XIX de Teatro has been developing original research that gave rise to the shows Hysteria; Hygiene; Arrufos; Marcha Para Zenturo (in partnership with Grupo Espanca); Nada Aconteceu, Tudo Acontece e Tudo Está Acontecendo; Estrada do Sul (in partnership with Teatro Dell’Argine) and Teorema 21. The exploration of unconventional spaces, collaborative creation and direct interaction with the audience in the performances are key elements of this trajectory.
In 2005, the group was nominated for the Shell Theatre Award in the special category for its artistic intervention in Vila Maria Zélia. Throughout its trajectory, it has accumulated more than 15 mentions in the country's main awards: Shell, APCA, Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro, Bravo!, Qualidade Brasil, among others.
Grupo XIX de Teatro won the 2017 Shell Award in the Innovation category for maintaining its headquarters in Vila Maria Zélia, in the East Zone, and partnering with artists from various fields.