Dois Perdidos numa Noite Suja

Two Lost in a Dirty Night (original numa Noite Suja Dois Perdido ) is a play by the Brazilian writer Plinio Marcos. He wrote this piece in 1966 and left it in the same year to premiere on smaller stages.

In the next few years, two films, the first in 1970 under the direction of Braz Chediak and the newer originated in 2002 by the government of José Joffily. It is one of the most famous pieces of Plinio Marcos and is listed today still regularly in Brazil and other countries.

Action

Two young men, Paco and Tonho share a run-down room in a cheap hotel in the city center and work during the day in a vegetable trade in order thus to finance food and accommodation. They spend their evenings together always in her room and talk about their life, work and their perspectives.

Tonho comes from a good background and studied. He complains that he has no decent pair of shoes and can imagine so nowhere to get a suitable job. Paco, however, for years earns his living as a street musician. Because it but its recorder was stolen and he has no money for a new one, it also relies on the work in the vegetable trade, but just as Tonho earn him enough income that they could meet their needs.

By chance, the two young people in possession of a gun, which they use advised to ambush people, to get to the money so. After Tonho has stolen enough money to afford to buy new shoes can, he wants to get out and Paco leave. However, this forces him under threat, report him to the police to continue to participate in the raids. Tonho feels harassed, which finally brings this to shoot Paco. Thus the play ends.