ABSTRACT
Bom Retiro 958 metros, a performance by Brazil’s theatre company, Teatro da Vertigem, leads us on a walk through São Paulo’s phantasmagoric world of things—things in a state of consumer glory, in use, in disuse, and in various stages of disintegration. This experiential piece moves us through a whirl of desire and longings, challenging many of our assumptions about what is dead and what is alive, about our desire to accumulate, transform, archive, and collect ‘things’ as we move through the underside of this immigrant neighbourhood.
