The situation refers to what the actor Luis Lobianco lived in Brazil, from ‘Vai na Fé’, when he played a transsexual from São Paulo who died in Porto
The Portuguese press reflects on a controversy that took place on Thursday evening at the traditional São Luiz Theater in Lisbon (19).
Brazilian actress and performer Keyla Brasil, who also claims to be a prostitute, invaded the stage during the staging of the show “Tudo Sobre Minha Mãe”.
The production is based on the award-winning film of the same name by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000.
In her panties and breasts showing, Keyla spoke out against choosing a cis actor, André Patrício, to play Lola, the transgender female character in the script.
“Get off the stage! Have respect for this place,” the Brazilian shouted. The curtains were drawn, leaving the cast out of the public eye, but the tranny didn’t remain silent.
“What is happening is a murder, an erasure of our identity as a transvestite,” he said.
“If they hired four women and three men, why not hire two trans people to play the character?”
Some in the audience shouted angrily, but the demonstration continued.
“Do you know why I work as a prostitute?…Because we don’t have space to be here on this stage, in this sacred place…I’d do this show for free.”
After the initial scare, the actors lined up in front of the stage to follow the protest. “We are with you,” said one of the artists of the work.
A similar protest took place in January 2018 with actor Luis Lobianco, Vitinho from the 7pm soap opera on Globo, ‘Vai na Fé’.
He was the target of backlash from the Belo Horizonte trans community for playing Brazilian transsexual Gisberta Salce in a monologue.
Based in Porto and living in extreme poverty, Gisberta was brutally attacked over several days by 14 teenagers. The group practiced physical and psychological torture in rotation.
The 45-year-old trans woman died of multiple external and internal injuries. The criminals were sentenced to light sentences.
At the time, Luis Lobianco defended the right to play a transgender character. “As an openly gay actor and working with LGBT people, I felt empowered to tell this story.”
Listened to by Sala de TV, the actress and transsexual activist Juhlia Santos, from BH, explained the situation.
“Everything can be done in the theatre, even artistic rethinking. As an artist, I understand that an actor or actress can bring any character, trans or cis, to life. But if in fact one person is sensitive to the subject, it is not appropriate for him to substitute for the other’s speech,” she said.
“And the discussion goes beyond the ‘transfake’ if we think that, for years, the theatrical space has been denied to women and blacks, and yet, in ‘Gisberta’ we see a cis actor playing a female character. A man who takes the space of women”.
After the repercussion in the media and on social networks of Keyla Brasil’s words on the stage of the Teatro São Luiz, André Patrício was replaced by the transsexual actress Maria João Vaz.
In the show, another character, Agrado, was already played by a trans artist, the Brazilian Gaya de Medeiros, respecting the gender identity indicated in the text.
André Patrício remains in the cast because he plays three other characters, all cis like him. The actor was shocked by the demonstration.
“I’m not in favor of violence or stage invasion. I felt violated and castrated in my art, in my work. We cultural workers (cis or trans) are also a minority,” she wrote on Instagram.
On the same social network, Keyla Brasil said she received hate messages and threats. She said she will stay away from Lisbon for a few days until she feels safe again to move around the city.
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Source: Terra
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