crítica > review

A special moment in theater and a cause for celebration when it comes to new Brazilian drama.

Bárbara Heliodora > Segundo Caderno > Rio de Janeiro BR

Felipe Rocha and Alex Cassal, along with their team of web-weavers, structure the scene in a way that gives the audience the feeling that the play is always smiling subtly at them, that there is always an open door for them to enter this world.

Daniele Avila > Questão de Crítica > Rio de Janeiro BR

Pay attention to the actors’ Brechtian stance as storytellers. They throw themselves into the theatrical performance with passion, yet with detachment, without pretending to be the characters themselves.

Gabriela Mellão > Bravo! Magazine > São Paulo BR

Making use of a stage dynamic in perfect harmony with the dramatic material, with constant shifts in mood and abrupt cuts that surprise and enchant in equal measure, Cassal and Rocha demonstrate the added merit of having drawn excellent performances from the cast.

Lionel Fischer > theater critic > Rio de Janeiro BR

Nobody said it would be easyasserts itself as a result of creative integrity that proposes a lively, revitalized dramaturgy, incorporating the audience’s participation as an active character in this playful exhibition of flashes of life.

Macksen Luiz > theater critic > Rio de Janeiro BR

Just when we think we’re lost, we realize they’ve played another trick on us and burst out laughing. Their performances are so everyday and unpretentious that everything takes on a spontaneity, a lightness, a fluidity where the three often seem like one.

Danilo Castro > Jornal O Povo > Fortaleza BR

Nobody said it would be easy‍ ‍can already be considered one of this year’s highlights for its absolute faith in the interplay between the actors and in the imagination to capture reality.

Isabelle Barros > Diário de Pernambuco > Recife BR

A brilliant text resulted in a sarcastic and labyrinthine staging, yet simultaneously entertaining and engaging. It captivated the audience and made them clearly feel the sentiment—not always easy—of commanding the audience.

Arnaldo Ventura > writer > Alcanena PT

A love triangle of panties and boxers, imbued with possessive affection, light humor, and at times caustic humor in the face of Nietzschean chaos. An actor’s exercise and method, seemingly unpretentious, to ensure theatrical pretension and daring that never neglect the dramatic geography of dramas and comedies redundant with the purposes of the art of pretense, with a praxis of unquestionable persuasion.

Maneco Nascimento > Cena de Placar > Teresina BR

On stage, everything moves: the set, the light, the body. The narratives blend together in a dizzying whirl. Everything shifts. Volatile capital. A tram without brakes. In free fall through this infinite space. Rio, Brazil. The world. In this galaxy now. No one said it would be easy—it is a libidinous, alcoholic play. Congratulations to the whole cast. Writing the scene of their time.

Ricardo Chacal > poet > Rio de Janeiro BR

It doesn’t seem relevant to speak here of ‘fragmented dramaturgy,’ given the fluidity of the transitions from one scene to the next, the relevance of the cuts and insertions that guide and carry us along, and we feel—more than we know—that we’ve understood it all.

Sandra Parra > theater critic > Londrina BR

Everything the show articulates leads to play, to dialogue with the other. Everything that is missing: thinking about yesterday, speaking of impermanence, viewing linearity as absurd in the present, the volatility of relationships, the need not to be just one, to live within a single role.

Luciana Garcia > journalist > Porto Alegre BR

I believe we are facing a truly new proposal, a time machine that does not transport us, but places us within diverse, intertwined, and simultaneous layers of memories and affections.

Caíque Botkay > composer > Rio de Janeiro BR

A show that invites us to experience a new way of being a theater audience member. I felt like I was witnessing the emergence of a new generation of directors/actors/playwrights. Evoé!

Camila Pitanga > actress > Rio de Janeiro BR