‘The Nightingale and the Rose – A love that dare not speak its name’ stars Glamor Garcia
The Nightingale and the Rose – A love that dares not speak its name is a theatrical project that promotes, through art, reflection on prejudice, the importance of freedom of expression and the right to equality for the LGBTQIAP+ community.
Written and directed by Ron Guilherme Deus The show is inspired by a short story by writer, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (Ireland 1854 – Paris 1900), a symbol of the fight for homosexual rights.
In the cast are Barbara Bruno, Augusto Zacchi It is Glamor Garciathe first Trans artist to win a revelation award for her performance.
The show takes us to the end of the 19th century, when a young soldier declares his love for another soldier. His courage goes further: he declares that she recognized herself as a woman in a man’s body. Her audacity costs her her life and her body is thrown into a dry well, which soon begins to pour a lot of water and perform miracles.
Every night of the full moon, a beautiful figure, which mixes the image of a transgender woman and a nightingale, comes out of the well, starting the legend that that Being, almost mythological, is the guardian of love and couples in love. One night a young aristocrat goes to the well to ask for help to plead with his beloved Maiden with a non-existent red rose.
The young man’s passion is immediate and, advised by an old sorceress, the beautiful figure decides to risk her own life by touching her chest against the thorns of a rose bush, trying to give life, with her heart’s blood, to the red rose.
Synopsis
The Nightingale (Glamour Garcia), a mythological and transgender figure in the body of a man, woman and bird, lives an intense passion for a Young Aristocrat (Augusto Zaccchi) but, advised by an old Enchantress (Bárbara Bruno), gives up her feelings and fights to get a red rose for the young man to conquer his beloved.
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