Planet Everything

In Planet Everything there’s everything anyone might want — but only one of each thing. When something breaks, there’s no replacing it. Or, actually, you must go to that place where there are various copies of different things: a strange planet called Earth. Jan, Sylpia, and Bavo, three aliens from Everything, come to Earth disguised as humans, in search for spare parts. Attempting to behave as earthly as possible, which isn’t easy, they face vast ambiguous human feelings.

Planeta Tudo, by Esther Gerritsen, translated by Ivam Cabral and Rodolfo García Vásquez, is an absurd comedy, both light and critical, that makes you laugh and think about human peculiar habits. It’s one of the five titles published by the Dramaturgia Holandesa collections, which presents foundational Dutch contemporary theater texts translated by important names of Brazilian theater.

About the author
Esther Gerritsen was born in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, in 1972. She’s a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. She studied playwriting and literature at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU). In 1995, she began writing plays both for adults and children. Among them, some highlights are Gras (1999), Planeta Tudo (2002) and De dag en de nacht en de dag na de dood (2005). Although she began her career in stage writing, her last play was written in 2011, when she started focusing on novels — many of them nominated for the important Dutch-language novel award Libris Literatuur Prijs, such as De Trooster (2018) and Dorst (2012). In 2014, she won the Frans Kellendonk award for her body of work. She’s the coauthor of the television series Red Light (2020), and also wrote the film Instinct (2019), which won prizes in Locarno, Toronto, and London film festivals and was the Dutch contender for the Best Foreign Picture Academy Award in 2019.

About the translators
Ivam Cabral was born in Ribeirão Claro in 1963. He’s an actor, director, playwright, and cofounder, alongside Rodolfo García Vázquez, of Cia. de Teatro Os Satyros. As a playwright, he wrote dozens of works, translated into Spanish, English, and German, and was published in Angola, Cuba, and the UK. He won important awards, such as Shell, APCA, Governador do Estado de São Paulo, Aplauso Brasil and Arcanjo de Cultura. He’s the executive director the theater school SP Escola de Teatro – Centro de Formação das Artes do Palco, an institution he created alongside other artists and collectives.
 
Rodolfo García Vázquez was born in São Paulo, in 1962. He’s a director, playwright, and screenwriter. He directed work in countries such as Estados Unidos, Sweden, Germany, South Africa, Cape Verde, and Kenya, and won important awards, such as Shell, APCA, Qualidade Brasil, Governador do Estado, Arcanjo de Cultura and Aplauso Brasil. Since 2020 he has been on the editorial board of the Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal (Routledge). He’s a guest lecturer at the Stockholm and Helsinki Arts Universities and one of the founders of SP Escola de Teatro – Centro de Formação das Artes do Palco, as well as the coordinator of its directing department.

About the collection
The Dramaturgy collection has, since 2012, published writing by Brazilian and international playwrights. The books help in building a memory of current theater, making a new record in the contemporary theater scene. In 2015, Cobogó also launched Dramaturgia Espanhola, the Spanish collection, and, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa (2019), the French collection, as part of the Projeto de Internacionalização de Dramaturgias [Playwriting Internationalization Project], conceived by Márcia Dias, alongside the Núcleo dos Festivais Internacionais de Artes Cênicas do Brasil [Brazilian Performing Arts International Festival Center]. Now the Dutch collection, Dramaturgia Holandesa, arrives, with the support of Nederlands Letterenfonds – Dutch Foundation for Literature, and the Performing Arts Fund NL. There are over 100 titles published in the Dramaturgia collection, featuring various award-winning plays from over 70 important playwrights.

Specifications
Title Planeta Tudo
[Planet Everything]
Collection Dutch Dramaturgy Collection
Author Esther Gerritsen
Translators Ivam Cabral and Rodolfo García Vásquez
Language Portuguese
Page count 136
ISBN 978-65-5691-066-6  
Cover Radiográfico
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2022