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Originally written in 1943, Wedding Dress is widely regarded as the play that revolutionized modern Brazilian theater. The story follows Alaíde, a young bride on her deathbed, as she navigates her shattered psyche like a dreamlike tapestry of memories, hallucinations, and reality. Through a non-linear structure, the play explores psychological and familial conflicts, exposing deep-seated secrets that challenge the social norms of its time, delving into universal themes such as repression, guilt, morality, and madness.

“I have embarked on a path that may lead me anywhere except to success. What path is this? That of a theater one could call — unpleasant. In a word, I am making unpleasant theater, unpleasant plays. (…) And why unpleasant plays? As I have already said, because they are pestilent, fetid works, capable, by themselves, of producing typhus and malaria in the audience.”

- Nelson Rodrigues