No words

Sem palavras portrays the movement and crossing occurring during a day around an apartment. Coming from a country in ruins, eight people with different bodies, social images, references, life stories and imagined worlds pass by. The ground shakes, inside and outside invade each other, and grammars are reformulated. A dog that barks, a transwoman who loves, and a man who does a countdown are some of the existence fragments developing on stage, bubbling up in words. Those who never had the right to speak or listen see their words overflow.

Based on the depletion and insufficiency of old shapes for our time’s issues, Sem palavras, by director and playwright Marcio Abreu, proposes a reinvention of language through stories of diverse bodies and social placements, in a mix of theater, dance, music and performance. Reclaiming a political and poetic dimension of words, reverberating not as a space of power, but as a whole body that's permeable in society, the text composes the image of an oncoming swarm, where each singularity vibrates and illuminates living possibilities.

Sem palavras closes out the trilogy composed by Marcio Abreu’s Projeto bRASIL and PRETO (written with Grace Passô and Nadja Naira), also published by Cobogó.

About the author
Marcio Abreu is a playwright, director and actor. He created the companhia brasileira de teatro (brazilian theater company), in Curitiba. He develops research and creation projects for plays of his own authorship, retellings of classics, and performances of contemporary authors; among his most recent works are O espectador (2022); Deus da carnificina (2020); Por que não vivemos? (2019); Outros (2018); Preto (2017); Nós (2016); Projeto brasil (2015); Krum (2015), by Hanoch Levin, for which he won the Shell 2015, Cesgranrio 2015 and Questão de Crítica 2015 awards for best director; Nômades (2014); Esta Criança (2012), by French author Joël Pommerat, for which he won the Shell award for best director; Isso te interessa? (2011), by Noëlle Renaude, for which he won, in 2012, the APCA and Bravo! awards for best play and Questão de Crítica for best director; Vida (2010), for which he won the Troféu Gralha Azul for best writer and best director; and Oxigênio (2010), by Ivan Viripaev.

About the collective
The companhia brasileira de teatro is a artists’ collective with members from all over the country, founded by playwright and director Marcio Abreu in 2000 in Curitiba, where its situated in an old building of the historical center. His research is focused in particular on new ways of writing and contemporary creation. He keeps an active repertoire, circulating inside and outside of the country. He has won the main performing arts awards in the country, and continues to research and create.

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 authors have been published, with over 100 titles, including various award-winning plays.

Specifications
Title Sem palavras [No words]
Author Marcio Abreu
Language Portuguese
Page count 80
ISBN 978-65-5691-098-7
Cover Pablito Kucarz
Size 13 x 19 cm
Format Softcover
Year 2023