Macacos

by Clayton Nascimento, Cia do Sal (Brazil)

July 18, 19 & 20

90 min

This performance will be in Portuguese with English subtitles.

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Content Warning// This show explores themes such as racism, violence, police brutality, slavery, white supremacy and death.

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Multi-award-winning monologue about the history of prejudice, exclusion and violence.

Using nothing more than his own body, voice and a lipstick, Nacimento brings the story of Brazil and slavery to the stage, from rulings by the Portuguese Court during slavery to the present day, when executions of black people by the police go unpunished. In this moving and multi-award-winning monologue MACACOS, he takes the audience through this history of prejudice, exclusion and violence.

Taking to the stage historical facts and harrowing situations, he heartbreakingly gives a voice to the mothers mourning their arrested and murdered daughters and sons. He also makes a direct connection with the audience as he reflects on slavery. From beginning to end, MACACOS is more than a performance: it shows where art has the power to inspire social change.

Clayton Nascimento was raised on the outskirts of the South Zone of São Paulo in Jabaquara in the 90s. He is currently a professor of Acting Games and Improvisation at the Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena, where he graduated; he studied at Casa do Teatro, SP Escola de Teatro and at the School of Dramatic Arts.

Clayton was an actor in BURAQUINHOS, directed by Naruna Costa the winner of the 2019 APCA prize for Best Director - and first black woman to win said award in the 70 years of the institution The play also won the Aplauso Brasil prize for Best Director and was nominated for Best Cast.

He is the director, writer and performer of MACACOS, the multi-award winning play about racism and black genocide in Brazil. Some of those awards are: Shell prize for Best Actor (2023), APCA prize for Best Actor (2023), FestKaos prize for Best Actor and Best Play (2022), FESTIC Caruaru prize for Best Lighting Design (for Danielle Meirelles), Best Playwright and Best Actor (2019), Best Play in the Amazonas Theater Festival (2017), Best Actor in the XX Rio de Janeiro Theater Festival (2016), among others. In 2020, published the book MACACOS by Editora Cobogó.

On his Artistic Residency at Sesc Pompeia, researched the intersection of theater, stage direction and oppression.

Was on the cast of Royal Shakespeare Company's Macbeth and studied with Hilton Cobra, Valéria Monã, Raul Cortez, Hilton Lacerda, Anna Mouylaert, Quito, Nídia Lícia, among others.

Macacos has been published as a play and can be bought at Amazon Brazil https://www.amazon.com.br/Macacos-Mon%C3%B3logo-epis%C3%B3dios-Clayton-Nascimento/dp/6556910759

THURSDAY JULY 18TH, 7 PM

FRIDAY JULY 19TH, 9 PM

SATURDAY JULY 20TH, 9 PM

Performances of

Macacos

are at Theater Wit

1229 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

Contact: (773) 975-8150

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Workshop Offering:

BLACK THEATER: SCENIC EXPERIENCES FROM CONTEMPORARY THEATER