“Me mata, meu homem!”: violence and sexuality in Navalha na carne

Abstract

This paper analyzes the play Razor in the flesh by Brazilian playwright Plínio Marcos, focusing on the link between violence and sexualities that define the intersubjective relationships among fictional subjects. The paper begins with Peter Szondi's considerations about the "one-act play" and the drama of confinement to understand the power relations between the characters in the drama. Declassed people of lumpen, the three characters of Razor in the flesh - Vado, Neusa Sueli and Veludo - are characterized as subjects marked by violence, sexualities and degraded sociability, whose actions exteriorize the life traumas and establish a perverse game of power and mutual exploitation.