Birth Wing

How to redesign and redefine history? How to create new narratives to talk about the oppressions faced by Black people, pointing towards horizons and free outcomes? It’s with these questions that playwright Jhonny Salaberg dives into the reality of female incarceration to expose, unmask and resignify the story of thousands of women, most of them Black, stuck in our country’s oppressive realities. Parto Pavilhão describes the escape plan of a group of women and their newborn children in a prison amidst the male soccer World Cup semifinals. Exposing oppression, but proposing a new, more dignified and poetic outcome, the author shows his narrative power, his brilliant approach to image creation, reality friction, to exposing our country’s racist existence in theater, staking his claim as one of our foremost contemporary playwrights.

About the author
Jhonny Salaberg is a playwright and actor. Born in Guaianases, São Paulo, he graduated from the Santo André Theater School. He’s a founding member of O Bonde. Among other work, he has published two plays, Mato cheio and Buraquinhos ou O vento é inimigo do picumã, with Cobogó. The latter was also included in the Funarte anthology Dramaturgia negra, and elected the best play of 2018 by Folha de S. Paulo, as well as winning seven categories in the country’s main theater awards. He won the Centro Cultural de São Paulo IV Mostra de Dramaturgia in the short plays category, and was the youngest playwright to be nominated for the APCA playwriting award. His plays are performed in partnership with São Paulo theater troupes and used as reference and study materials in universities and theater schools throughout Brazil, as well as in studies of Black theater in Norway, through the Norsk Shakespeare- og Teatertidsskrift journal.

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, and Dramaturgia para Crianças, for children. Over 70 authors and 80 titles have been published.

Specifications
Title Parto-pavilhão (Birth Wing)
Collection **Dramaturgia
Author Jhonny Salaberg
Language Portuguese
Page count 80
ISBN 9786556910291
Cover Rafael Cristiano
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2021