While costumes remain period-accurate, the background often features modern elements like graffiti and highways, bridging the gap between 19th-century social order and 21st-century realities. Critical Reception
The sets, designed by Beth Figueiredo, often resemble a "paper theater." The textures are tactile—faded wallpapers, crumbling plaster, and heavy velvets—suggesting that the story is not happening in real-time, but inside the decaying, obsessive mind of an elderly Bento Santiago (played with haunting bitterness by Michel Melamed). The Dualities: Bentinho and Capitu Seriado Capitu - Luis Fernado de Carvalho
: Maintaining the novel's famous ambiguity, the visuals respect the "margin of doubt" regarding Capitu’s alleged betrayal, emphasizing the tension between representation and truth. Visual & Technical Innovation BAM | Capitu - Brooklyn Academy of Music Visual & Technical Innovation BAM | Capitu -
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