#Dead realm free to play free

Am I Marília? Yet Marília was a comforting presence during cold, dark, winters in New York City, as he struggled to learn English, find work, and deal with homophobic violence. The father, who had already molested three of his daughters, began grooming the protagonist when he was five. Then ten months old, he slept unaware of the horror that would come to shape his life. He is haunted by Marília, who, in 1966, at the age of three, was killed by a bus outside the building where the protagonist’s family lived. Arriving undocumented in the United States in 1987 at the age of 21, Marília’s protagonist struggles to build a life as an immigrant and an out gay man. The Realm of the Dead is freely adapted from Marília, in which the protagonist recounts his journey out of a childhood of poverty, sexual trauma and domestic violence during the time of Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985).

#Dead realm free to play free

Pinto next performed the play in July 2016 at the Vrystaat Community Arts Festival at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Marília won Best Documentary Script at the Festival. Marília, a play, was written by Pinto and performed by him in November 2015 on Theater Row, New York City, as part of the United Solo Festival. Grounded in Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, Realm of the Dead invites us to confront and to find creative ways to handle personal and social issues like grief, poverty, immigration, gender, sexual identity and sexual trauma. The performance includes material on ethnicity, race, gender, class, and other identities. Each piece of luggage in the Realm of the Dead reflects an aspect of Pinto’s multiple physical and spiritual journeys together they also represent the cemetery where Marília is buried. The installation includes dozens of vintage suitcases and trunks that have been intricately crafted into sculptures, evoking how Pinto grew up in poverty in Brazil, and how at 21 he arrived in the United States and lived in New York City for nearly a decade as an undocumented immigrant.

Pinto takes the audience on a journey as he recounts how he was consumed by the loss of his sister, Marília, who died in a sudden accident at just three years old, and by his later molestation by his father. Rogério Meireles Pinto, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Is a community-based art project conceived, written, and performed by Dr. Realm of the Dead An installation performance