The beloved

The Beloved is one of the most famous sociopolitical-pathological farces.

The author, responsible for resounding theatrical successes and whose work shares political and social protest as its common denominator, provides the reader with an irresistible portrait of the customs of life in a small, orderly, and peaceful village in the interior of Bahia, for the inauguration of a cemetery—a political platform of its ambitious mayor, Odorico Paraguaçu. The problem: he needed to find a corpse.

Odorico, the Beloved, is the incarnation, on a provincial scale, of much more sinister characters from Latin American political life, dictators, caudillos, demagogues of all kinds, and whose profile, sometimes comical, sometimes pathetic, the author's rich imagination delineates in a precise and forceful way.

Naturally, the protagonist is also a human being in crisis. The gap between his pretensions to greatness, comically revealed in his stilted language, and the sad reality of a region he finds frustratingly underdeveloped, accentuates the contradictions of his existence and of the very politics he represents and personifies.

Odorico, the politician, the doctor, the tribune, Odorico, the Great, the Peacemaker, is the funny and ironic version of Brazilian and Latin American political reality like the Somozas, the Pinochets, the Batistas, the Videlas and others better known to the Brazilian public, some more, some less “sympathetic”, but all with the same objective: to inflate their own ego at the expense of the people.

O Bem-Amado , a crystal-clear and blunt satire, is another manifestation of the creative talent of the master of political and social contestation theater, Dias Gomes, from whom we have had equally acclaimed plays, such as O Rei de Ramos , O Santo Inquérito and O Pagador de Promessas .