How to kill naked women

Como matar mulheres nuas [How to Kill Naked Women] questions the work of Sade from the most uncommon perspective regarding the stage, reality and immortality. We thus open a space to give voice to the women who narrate the most absurd pleasures of debauchery and are almost never highlighted when discussing this work (The 120 Days of Sodom). What is vital here are the actions suggested by these women, the libertine and feminist beauty, the risk of understanding that the fate of disgust is countered with beauty, charm and pleasure. In Como matar mulheres nuas, we put the pain and the limits to the test. The pain was also the object of study in the work of Sade as being apathetic in his characters: “pain is itself the greater purpose for a libertine, elevation itself, the very apex that we must apathetically try to reach”. — Xana Novais

Concept and artistic direction: Xana Novais
Performers: Amanda Bailey, Ana Rita Xavier, Carincur, Fedra Ferreira, Patrícia Borges, Tita Maravilha, Xana Novais
Dramaturgical assistance: Tatiana Rocha
Sound design and operation: Carincur
Lighting design: Rui Barbosa
Set design, costumes and Original Text: Xana Novais
Video operation: Rita Soeiro
Suspension technician: Binho Barduzzi
Tattoo artist: Patrícia Borges
Artistic and executive production: Ângela Cardoso, Valter Gomes
Perfomance support: analu, Elizabete Francisca, Piny, Oscar Cutello, Rafael Ayres, Vanda Vila Nova
Photography: Diogo Bessa
Production intern: Francisca Cardoso
Executive production: Diogo Bessa, Xana Lagusi (2018-2021)

Residency support: STUDIO THOR Belgium, CRL - Central Elétrica, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, A Bela Associação, Armazém 22, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Polo Cultural Gaivotas
Technical residency support: Centro de Experimentação Artística | Município da Moita, Casino Solverde | Espinho
Residency financial support: STUDIO THOR Belgium
Sponsors: Hello Sailor Empresa de Carpintaria Pau Maciço, Jaos
Creation support: Self-Mistake
Institutional partner: República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura | Garantir Cultura
Project supported by: Fundação GDA (2020)
Co-production: Teatro Municipal do Porto, Theatro Circo

Acknowledgments: Ângela Cardoso, Renée Copraij, Rui Silveira, Diogo Melo, Luísa Gouveia, Empresa de Carpintaria Pau Maciço, Francisco Ferreira (Arameiro), Nuno Lacerda, Diogo Neves, Casa Sobral (Espinho), Vilarinho e Máquinas LDA, Márcio Silva, Joana Castro, Junta de Freguesia de Espinho e Casino Solverde | Espinho

Performance inspired by narratives of The 120 Days of Sodom, by the Marquis de Sade.