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Clientage; The Reverse of the Same
What
Theater play
When
May - August 2022
Me as a
writer, director and actress
Script
Synopsis
A Brazilian narrative dispute is laid bare when three characters cross ways: a wealthy teenage girl, a drug dealer, and a police officer. Rita Batista de Bragança Pinheiro always had everything at her fingertips: school, money, family, and coke. A lot of coke. Sniffing cocaine around the outskirts of the West Zone of São Paulo, Rita ends up having "Sorriso" as her trafficker. Selling drugs to the São Paulo elite, the dealer, actually named Moacir, has to skillfully outmaneuver the São Paulo State Police to make a living and support his household. A former military member of the first battalion, Officer Peixoto, is obsessed with the idea of power exercised on the streets, arresting, on his best days, one more small-time criminal. It is at the intersection of these three stories that one of the thousands of Brazils is constructed; the Brazil of hopes driven away by drugs, of knowledge alienation, of the aspiration to power, of the desire for freedom, of the fatality of life, and, above all, of crude violence.
Clientage was the first play I wrote and directed, in a co-production with 15 people. When listening to the music "Odeon", by Pixinguinha, I had the envision of a scene where three people simultaneously, frenetically, got ready for their day as a drug addict, a drug dealer and a police officer. The 40-minute play unravelled their paths crossing, compassing the contradictions, adversities and controversies of the drug trafficking issue in Brazil. I additionally played the part of Rita, the drug addict (the red-haired girl, in the pictures). The character was inspired by the Brazilian singer Rita Lee. Moacir Peri's name was inspired by Jose de Alencar's character, Iracema's son. His name means "child of suffering".
