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A Cicatriz Se Abre
This article is about the experimental theatre work. For other Brazilian adaptations, see Brazilian adaptations.
A radical Brazilian experimental theatre work staging the scar and recurrence as a single continuous performance-scar. Actors and audience occupied the same permeable space with no stage boundary; the surgery described in the novel became literal cutting and stitching of theatrical space across the run.
Katita's role as surgeon and agent of change was reimagined through Brazilian estrangement aesthetics (following Cinema Novo's principle of making the familiar alien). The *cicatriz*—both wound and mark of survival—was a permanent record of having been broken and sutured. Each performance night, the space was "opened" anew through physical theatre, with actors moving through and against audience bodies; the boundary between healer and patient, watcher and witnessed, dissolved.
Verification of existence and premiere date remains incomplete. The piece is known through a single ██ -produced video excerpt (approximately 12 minutes) and scattered references in São Paulo theatre journals from 2013–2014. Some sources describe it as a one-night event; others as a three-week run. A 2018 revival is rumoured but unconfirmed. The work's director and collective name remain redacted in available sources, suggesting anonymity by design or archival loss. [1]
See also
- Brazilian adaptations of Beach Surgery
- Cinema Novo and estrangement
- Experimental theatre and Beach Surgery
- The Wound Folds Inward
References
- ↑ Correspondence with SESC São Paulo archivist, 2024.