Modest Male Exposure

A hairdresser cuts a person's hair.

Joan is a boy trapped in an obsession: spying on his neighbor every day, to the point of falling in love with him.

In SOMBRA [SHADOW], inspired by Alberto Manguel's book "The Library at Night", Teatro da Pombagira talks about Censorship, of knowledge and of bodies; about repression, judgment and necropolitics, immersing the public in an environment that reveals the works which were hidden on the highest shelves, locked or even removed from circulation, whether for their queer, erotic or fanciful content. Throughout the performance, the audience can hear the whispers of excerpts from literary works that have somehow suffered from censorship, while the performers take over the space and create explicit imagery that sometimes collaborates in the staging, sometimes disorient understanding.

An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off.

Two actors with a strong age difference play the roles of emperor and slave on the stage, but in daily life they are a couple in crisis and things are diametrically opposite.

The descent into hell of Dany, a young homeless man taken in by a "charitable" man.

A man returns to his ex boyfriend's house.

Set in an urban fairytale, DeShawn (an unlikely anti-hero) is smack-dabbing in the middle of a peculiar crossroads. He is haunted by the ghosts of one hundred men: ex-“boyfriends,” in addition to the ghosts of everyone they dated. His days are filled with spiraling epiphanies and lucid, reckless bohemianism fueled by systemic poverty and HIV ennui. In this particular sketch he is relating his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline telephone while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of jeans that he recently shoplifted from Levi’s. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2017 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, a program of seven videos prioritizing Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett.

A wife and mom with secret dreams of being a stand-up comic uses a one night stand with a burned-out touring comedian to face the harsh but funny truths of her failing marriage, neglected aspirations, and individual identity.

With a technical education background, Eva (Eva Arnaz) tries to become an entrepreneur by opening a workshop. He was assisted by several friends, and it turned out that soon his efforts were quite advanced. Rudy (Geroge Rudy), one of his customers, is interested in Eva's beauty, who is considered a good-looking woman. Tit for tat, Eva received Rudy's love. Unfortunately the relationship between the two men did not get the blessing of Rudy's parents. Eva, in the eyes of Rudy's parents, was considered too low for her prospective engineer. Because the relationship between Rudy and Eva is getting tighter, finally Rudy's parents bless him too.

Tomboy Zehra helps Omer to get with the girl he is madly in love with after saving him from a suicide attempt but finds herself also falling for him.