Leiloca

A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.

In the summer of 1970, Janis Joplin went to Brazil to get away from heroin. During her meteoric and nearly anonymous stay, the singer was thrown out of the Copacabana Palace, drank heavily, and met the love of her life.

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.