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OF
CLOSE
NOBODY
AND
NORMAL

Nominated for the CENYM Award

of National Theater
BEST THEATRE COMPANY 2023
BEST ART DIRECTOR
BEST SCENARIO

BEST ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

Direction and

dramaturgy

GUSTAVO PASO

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"A cast that buys into the skeleton of the production and gives substance to the feeling of an authorial and super-obsessed direction.


Gustavo Paso is experiencing one of the most courageous revisions of his own work.


(...) the technical elegance of a good part of the cast, especially in the figures of Clara Carvalho, Marcelo Várzea and Fausto Franco, which emerges is a proposal for a complete game – and it seems brilliant to see how the tuning between the language of the performers, in the case of theater, proves capable of finding the last symbolic and communicational filigree suggested by the direction (...)


What Paso suggests in this production seems quite peculiar. Unique and authorial, fulfilling his epigenetic role in theater, the director creates a comedy of characters, and that's how the work feels overall.
De Perto Ninguém É Normal also appears as a kind of revision of popular theater – and that doesn't rob us of the flavor or catharsis of the format.


The visual magnetism and the way the characters fit into the brands, and the best moments of the dramaturgy, color with a powerful signature a work that, certainly, in the hands of another creator, as is often seen, could sound generic or excessively practical and seeking recognized artifices (...)


(...) it is worth highlighting a quality present both in the staging and in the best interpretations.
The text, whose best features are found in the vaudeville of a play that does not begin with the excellent metalanguage capable of involving such a condition, is quite well designed (...)"

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