During nocturnal adventures in search of survival means, a cockroach enters a book and lives her first memorable experience through reading the “History of the World”.Somehow, she believes she is invited to the eternal human party where meaning through history is produced. Uninterrupted narratives of the small and daily stories that feed the flow of the history of humanity. Suddenly she understands the particullarity of the species, the exclusively human necessity of narrating, of telling, of speaking about the tiniest experiences that culminate in the production of meanings of human life. The fight against the strangeness of the world and its alienation, the solitude and the isolation are staged in “Os Bichos”.
It is a discovery of the written word and of history, depository of the values that facilitate a peaceful and civilizatory insertion of the man in the world. Performance without spoken word, investigating the written word.
A cockroach with out a human language, dances to the discovery of history meaning. Humanized, she dances to her own unknown history until then, breaking the boundaries of what she is supposed to do. The cockroach humanity lasts until the final blow with a shoe.
From which, however, she escapes, finding again refuge inside a book.
Text and Direction: Silmara de Oliveira Fernandes
Performer: Fábia Machado
Scenography and Costume: Laércio Redondo
Graphic Material: Billy Lipinski
Lighting: Josy Galvão
Video: Laércio Redondo
Production: Kristien De Rijck
