ABSTRACT
Jacaras attest to the marginality of prostitution and at the same time offer the audience a glimpse into a world alien to theirs or, to be more precise, into a glamorized fictional representation of such world. Jacaras transport the audience to the underworld of criminality and, from that space of otherness, the issue of violence against women acquires a new dimension. Jacaras are set in the underworld of crime. Playwrights may not be transferring into their work the factuality of the underworld of prostitution, but they are molding their pieces with a common assumption, which is that mainstream society perceives outsiders as violent. Jacaras purposely elude the one point of contact between the underworld of prostitution and mainstream society, which is the relationship between sex workers and clients and instead focus on the relationships among criminals and between criminals and law officials.
