Deuses de Casaca

The Greek gods have left Olympus and taken up residence in Rio de Janeiro, dressed in formal coats and determined to survive in a world that no longer believes in them. Jupiter calls an emergency council: attendance at temples has dried up, prayers have ceased, and the divine pantheon faces an existential crisis. Cupid, the rogue, has abandoned his quiver entirely, preferring to pursue mortal conquests the old-fashioned way. Machado de Assis, Brazil's supreme ironist, transforms ancient mythology into a glittering comedy of manners, using the gods' panic as a lens to examine what happens when immortality meets modernity. The play crackles with wit, but beneath the laughter lies something sharper: a meditation on faith, obsolescence, and the peculiar human need to believe in something, even as we insist we don't. It's mythology in a dinner jacket, and the result is absolutely devastating.