The Dragged Woman

The Dragged Woman, a play by playwright and screenwriter Diones Camargo, was written based on a true tragedy that occurred in Rio de Janeiro in 2014. Cláudia Silva Ferreira — a poor, Black, 38-year old woman, who worked in a hospital's cleaning staff, a mother of four biological children, and four adopted ones — was brutally shot by the Military Police when leaving home in Rio de Janeiro's Morro da Congonha, to buy bread for her family. After the shooting, her body was thrown into a police van, part of it left hanging outside the vehicle. The woman was subsequently dragged through the streets, still alive, under the horrified eyes of passersby and nearby drivers.

Intertwining the true case and a fictional narrative, this award-winning manifesto-play rescues Cláudia’s tragic figure and places her centerstage, to reclaim what was erased, little by little, in the case's journalistic coverage: her name, replaced by the cruel monicker of “dragged woman”.

The play won more than ten awards — including four for Best Play — and, since premiering, in 2018, has been featured in important festivals in Brazil and abroad, and toured over 28 Brazilian towns.

“The Dragged Woman puts centerstage what isn't seen and isn't heard, but is still present. It’s playwriting with powerful succinctness and instituted poetic capacity. It's worth reading and rereading. So, whoever has this book in hand, have a nice read, or, better yet, a nice listen. May good winds guide us.” — Dione Carlos, playwright, screenwriter and actress.

About the author
Diones Camargo is a playwright and screenwriter. Having graduated as a Drama major from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, he's the author of around twenty plays, many of them award-winning. Some of the most important theater companies in Rio Grande do Sul have put on his shows, and his works have also been published and produced abroad (Portugal, Spain, Cuba, Uruguay, Chile and Singapore). In parallel to his writing activities, the author regularly teaches workshops and takes part in projects connected to research in playwriting and its relationship to multilanguages. Currently, he coordinates the Grupo de Estudos em Dramaturgia de Porto Alegre, a collective investigating literature and its intersections with other languages, such as theater, film, performance and visual arts. He’s the screenwriter and story editor for award-winning films, such as A colmeia (The Beehive), 2019, a feature based in his play of the same name, which won the Best Foreign Feature award in the 24th Zaragoza Festival in Spain. He also cowrote the short film The Last Day Before Zanzibar, 2016, with Filipe Matzembacher and Márcio Reolon.

About the collection
The Dramaturgia collection has, since 2012, published writing by Brazilian and international playwrights. The books help in building a memory of current theater, making a new record in the contemporary theater scene. In 2015, Cobogó also launched Dramaturgia Espanhola, the Spanish collection, and, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa, the French collection. Over 70 authors have been published, with 82 titles.

Specifications
Collection Dramaturgy Collection
Author Diones Camargo
Language Portuguese
Page count 72
ISBN 9786556910345
Cover Henrique Lago
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2021