Full Bush

Full Bush is inspired by the stories of enslaved people who ran through railroads towards the sea, crossing Casa do Sitio da Ressaca – a passageway quilombo from the early 19th Century – until the quilombos in Santos, in the Sao Paulo coast. Gasta-Botas, Salgada and Ninguém de Oliveira Neta share the same image-body. One character, seen through three different perspectives, walking in search of themself and the place they occupy. They crave the sea, in an attempt to reform the past, soak up the present and build a new possibility for the future, moved by the character of Fogo, translated by Picita: a black, non-fictional woman, a fact that history attempts to erase. Drama proposes a lens for black bodies in displacement by the city and for genocide and ethnocentrism built and propagated from the times of slavery until today. Fiction, myth and personal testimonials compose the poetical-performative-narrative tapestry of this work.

About the company
Founded in 2016, Carcaça de Poéticas Negras (Black Poetry Carcass) is an arts collective composed of four young Afro-american artists from low-income areas: Isamara Castilho, Jhonny Salaberg, Patrick Carvalho and Priscila Guedes, coming from two theater schools in the state of São Paulo: Escola Livre de Teatro and Escola de Arte Dramática. The collective researches the language of the black urban body and its diasporas, genocide and ethnocentrism in contemporary times, and the carcass of symbols of black ancestrality, revealing layers of an erased enslaved history. They develop in their work the Escape Trilogy, a research in the mass genocide of black poor youth, and the escape for survival. The trilogy is composed of research, setup and circulation of three theater works. It contains in its repertoire, until the present moment, plays Full Bush (2019), directed by Ivy Souza, and Little Holes or The Wind is the Enemy of Picumã (2018), directed by Naruna Costa. Both created by Jhonny Salaberg, they are the first two movements in the trilogy – the latter was nominated for various theater awards, such as Best Writing at APCA, Best Cast and Best Director at Aplauso Brasil and Best Play at Folha de Sao Paulo, and was awarded Best Director at APCA, Best Project and Best Writing at the UOL Miguel Arcanjo Prado UOL, in 2018.

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 Jhonny Salaberg and Carcaça de Poéticas Negras
Language Portuguese
Page count 80
ISBN 9788555910746
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2019