“Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists”

Under the fascist regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, activist Catarina Eufémia was fatally shot by the police in a protest for workers rights in Portugal. Eufémia’s tragic death made her an icon of the resistance movement and sparked the idea for Festival d’Avignon director Tiago Rodrigues’s fictional play, “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists.” In the play, a woman of a Portuguese family must kidnap and kill a fascist in honor of Eufémia every year. In 2028, the youngest family member, also named Catarina, is the first to refuse to carry out the ritual. The play will be making its US premiere at PS21, performed in Portuguese with English supertitles.

Watch the trailer.