The Plagiarists

Porto Alegre, Brazil

May 2012

 

The play brings together the groups that won the 2011 Braskem Award, directed by Guadalupe Casal (Sarcáustico), Jezebel de Carli (Santa Estação), Mário de Balenti (Caixa do Elefante) and Marcelo Restori (Falos & Stercus) and in the cast, 18 actors. In the present, a man is run over while a reporter seeks out Nelson Rodrigues for an interview about the first montage of his most famous text, when he is surprised by the news of the writer's death. In an indefinite time, a theater group performs a play that changes during the rehearsals. And in 1942, after an inexpressive debut as an author, young Nelson divides himself between the newsroom of the newspaper he works and the sleepless dawns, concluding his most audacious work, a psychological drama about a woman who mixes facts, memories and hallucinations at a table of surgery.