I won’t surrender!

Written by Flávio Marinho, I won’t surrender! brings to audiences the book of the play celebrating Othon Bastos’s 91 years of life, and over 70 years of career. One of the greatest Brazilian actors, Bastos performed in great theater, film and television classics, leaving his mark in generations of viewers and becoming a reference in Brazilian culture.
Through the stories of Othon Bastos, we’re led backstage to productions such as Glauber Rocha’s film Black God, White Devil, and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri’s play Um grito parado no ar, peça de Gianfrancesco Guarnieri. On stage, a Living Memory is in dialogue with the artist, filling in gaps. With a large swath of references, the text proposes reflections about his rich trajectory, discussing aspects of work, love, theater, film and politics.
I won’t surrender! is a fun and moving journey through some of the most important moments in Brazilian arts, told through one of its protagonists. Since 2024, Othon Bastos has been performing the play onstage, reliving his own history in a breathless monologue that has been watched by tens of thousands of spectators.

Excerpts

“OTHON:
Artist, your name is born in the list of those bound to bleed for passion and pain. It’s a mark, it’s a curse, there’s no cure. You’ll fulfill your mission until you vanish with your cross, your root pain. Creation is more important than happiness.”

“OTHON:
[imitating Glauber Rocha] “Othon, come on, I need to you to make my film.” I explained to him that I couldn’t do it, that I was rehearsing the play. “I’ll buy you out!” What? We went to the theater. And can you believe that he convinced production to lend me to his movie for two weeks, for 100,000 cruzeiros? [to the Memory] Memory, how much is that worth nowadays?
MEMORY:
36 reais and 45 cents.
OTHON
And there I went to the ends of the earth to do Black God, White Devil for $36.45.”

About the artist
Othon Bastos is one of the most important Brazilian actors. Born in 1933 in Tucano, Bahia, he has acted in film classics, such as Sol sobre a lam*a, by Alex Viany, *The Given Word, by Anselmo Duarte, Black God, White Devil and Antonio das mortes, both by Glauber Rocha, Capitu, by Paulo César Saraceni, Of Gods and the Undead, by Ruy Guerra, S. Bernardo, by Leon Hirszman, Brainstorm, by Laís Bodanzky, Central Station, by Walter Salles Jr., and O paciente, by Sérgio Rezende. With formal theater training, he began his career at Paschoal Carlos Magno’s Duse Theater, studied drama at the Weber Douglas School in London, and was in the theater school at Bahia Federal University. He performed in the four most important productions directed by José Celso Martinez Correa — Maxim Gorky’s The Philistine*s, Oswald de Andrade’s *O rei da vel*a, and Bertolt Brecht’s *Life of Galileo and In the Jungle of Citie*s —, and, for 15 years, led Othon Bastos Produções Artísticas, a company he founded alongside his wife, Marta Overbeck, to produce shows such as *Castro Alves pede passagem, Um grito parado no ar, Caminho de volta, Ponto de partida, Murro em ponta de faca and Dueto para um só. On television, he acted in eighty telenovelas. He is a great reference in the history of Brazilian culture.

About the author
Flavio Marinho is a writer, playwright, translator and director with over 90 productions in his resumé — including plays, musicals and shows. He has written the book for Judy: O arco-íris é aqui *— which won him awards such as APTR for Best Author and É Sobre Musicais for Best Book and Best Show —, *Cauby! Cauby! Uma lembrança! and Se eu fosse você — O musical, among others. Also for the theater, he has translated plays such as Brian Clark’s The Petition, Nell Dunn’s Steaming, and Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo. He has various published books, including Abalou Bangu (2003) , Cauby! Cauby! (2007), A vingança do espelho - A história de Zezé Macedo (2012) and Judy: O arco-íris é aqui (2022). He was a writer and collaborator in TV shows such as Escolinha do Professor Raimundo and Zorra Total and wrote the script for shows such as Roberto Carlos Especial 94. For 14 years, he acted as a theater critic in various press outlets, including O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, Última Hora, Tribuna da Imprensa, Vogue and Elle. For Não me entrego, não! Marinho won Best Author at the 2024 FITA awards.

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, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa, the French collection, and, in 2022, Dramaturgia Holandesa, the Dutch collection. Over 70 important theater authors have been published, with over 100 titles, including various award-winning plays.

Specifications
Title Não me entrego, não!
[I won’t surrender!]
Author Flávio Marinho
Language Portuguese
Page count 64
Publisher Cobogó
ISBN 978-65-5691-160-1
Cover Gamba Júnior
Format Softcover
Size 13x19 cm
Year 2025
Price R$ 52.00