Physical Theater Festival Chicago and the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago present Macacos, a show about how the racism and the erasure of black memories and ancestralities are rooted in Brazil´s history. The performance follows a black man who searches for new spaces to occupy, facing and reflecting about the adjective MACACO, a slur used against black people around the world. The play recollects episodes from Brazilian history and acknowledges the statistics from the mothers and families of young black men arrested or executed by the Brazilian military police from 1500 to 2021. The questions raised by this black man invite the audience to question the veiled prejudice present in Brazil’s social structure and everyday life.
Clayton Nascimento Is the director, writer and performer of Macacos. 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.
