Virgens suicidas
Event
With a precise clinical language, made of mysterious and erotic details, “The Virgins Suicides” directed by John Romão, written by Mickael Oliveira, is a creation inspired by the text of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides and the text “Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls” by Frank Wedekind. Played by Luísa Cruz, Vera Mantero, Mariana Tengner Barros and teen gymnasts. The performers are confined to an all-female space, living a routine, strict life, they engage in physical education, theatre and dance, in an apparently idyllic environment. There is something disturbing about the walls of this place: apart from the girls enduring absolute isolation, away from the rest of the world, their submission to a harsh physical discipline arouses in each one of them violent urges of annihilation. “The Virgins Suicides” targets the repressive nature of education, a dystopian call to arms, marked by the arrival and death of the adult body.
