Modest Male Exposure

In SOMBRA [SHADOW], inspired by Alberto Manguel's book "The Library at Night", Teatro da Pombagira talks about Censorship, of knowledge and of bodies; about repression, judgment and necropolitics, immersing the public in an environment that reveals the works which were hidden on the highest shelves, locked or even removed from circulation, whether for their queer, erotic or fanciful content. Throughout the performance, the audience can hear the whispers of excerpts from literary works that have somehow suffered from censorship, while the performers take over the space and create explicit imagery that sometimes collaborates in the staging, sometimes disorient understanding.

A hairdresser cuts a person's hair.

Joan is a boy trapped in an obsession: spying on his neighbor every day, to the point of falling in love with him.

Two actors with a strong age difference play the roles of emperor and slave on the stage, but in daily life they are a couple in crisis and things are diametrically opposite.

A man returns to his ex boyfriend's house.

The descent into hell of Dany, a young homeless man taken in by a "charitable" man.

An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off.