Book, Confinement Trilogy: Namibia, no! Immediate boarding[LS]

Illustrations: Rodrigo Chedid / Bicho Coletivo Foreword: Leda Maria Martins Presentations: Lázaro Ramos, Cleise Mendes, Dione Carlos and Luiz Marfuz With his agile pen, intelligence, dramatic intensity and humor, Aldri Anunciação confronts the issues of racism, blackness and the diaspora black in depth, with an extremely well-tailored and accessible text, offering readers of different ages, from young people to adults, countless layers of understanding and debate. Winner of Jabuti, the playwright, actor and presenter emerges as one of the clearest talents today. A work that, through the use of segregated space as a metaphor for oppression and its psychological dimension, dialogues with the dark times of social distancing and compulsory isolation brought about by the coronavirus health crisis, which ends up completely involving us in its identity and anti-racist. What does it mean to be black? What is it like to be black? Why be black in confrontation with a society that wants to see itself as white? In the three pieces by Aldri Anunciação that Perspectiva presents in this Trilogy of Confinement, the black man enters the scene without samba or poverty, without easy stereotypes, only the color of his skin differs – this canvas on which a society that wants to be white and has values Eurocentrics project their fears and failures. In an indefinitely extended and spatially restricted “today”, there are always two. Two cousins ​​hiding in a small apartment, to escape an extradition decree for the “highly melanin” population. Two citizens, trapped without knowing why in a room at the airport. Two soldiers, captured during the break of a battle, interrupted due to lack of ammunition. Normality in crisis – like a pandemic that interrupts the gears and isolates its actors – produces the absurdity of situations. The dialogues, which are both agile and reflective, generate a dramatic, but still humorous, clash of world views, from unusual and unexpected angles, which lead the reader to think about themselves and the world around them. As a work of art should do, because that's what it's about. After all, somewhere the enchantment has to be deposited.