This book is the result of a year's worth of interviews conducted by Edy Botelho, a former actor of the Dry Opera Company, and part of what is considered to be a 'life achievement's award' for the body of work in the theater. The book - part of the collection "APLAUSO", focuses mainly on documenting each production by way of photographs and descriptions by the author (Gerald Thomas) of what happened during and around each of those production on and off the stage

Scratching the Surface
By Antonio Gonçalves Filho

The first image which comes to mind when I think of Gerald Thomas is that of a shark drowning in a glass of water – a sketch the playwright-director wound up using as a poster for his Sturmspiel (commissioned by the National Theater Munich in 1989). He used to draw it over and over again during rehearsals for the Kafka Trilogy (1988), which I attended assiduously, the poster for which inadvertently evoked formal elements of the Surrealist school (and, in point of fact, of no particular interest to Gerald). In his Kafka Trilogy poster, a scary-looking cockroach sports a head crafted from a fountain pen nib of the sort used to produce delicate line drawings. Gerald's is monstrously delicate. It translates the anxiety of the Kafkian character's metamorphosis – an awkward, fragile being uncomfortably trapped in a body not his own at the behest of a metaphor for legal penalties against those who are different and, thus, committed to penal colonies. The artist's cockroach-quill was not quite a surrealist manifesto of the absurd, although it did sum up Kafka's parable with a power hard to match in words. For this is what Gerald does when words fail him: he draws. And he does it well. As well as he lights a stage. Some of the finest lighting design projects in the history of Brazilian theater have been his, including the one for MattoGrosso, Flash and Crash Days and EletraComCreta.

Nada Prova Nada!

Nada Prova Nada (nothing proves nothing) (Record publishers) is a compilation of chronicles written by GT and published on his blog over a period of 7 years The book also includes opinion articles published in major dailies and magazines. Intro by Philip Glass and it covers various subjects, ranging from analysis of Beckett plays to letters to Beckett himself, obits on Susan Sontag, Pina Bausch, Kazuo Ohno and Larry King Live taken off the air after reigning for 25 years.

		O Encenador de Si Mesmo (The staging of the Self) Teatro Brasileiro, Historia e Critica. Published by Silvia Fernandes and Jaco Guinsburg. Editora Perspectiva, Sao Paulo,Brazil Critical essays by and about Gerald Thomas. Contributors include Jaco Guinsburg, David George, Wladimir Krisisnki (Liberation), Haroldo de Campos, Flora Sussekind, Gerd Bornheim, Sylvia Fernandes.

		Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship period David George This book by David George is a magnificent review of Brazil's post dictatordship theater and it focuses on Gerald Thomas's art in particular. His incredible perception of Gerald's theater is one of the most sophispticated in existance and his ability to describe it is such that it almost brings the live performce to the reader. A must!

		Gerald Thomas em Cena, Memoria e Invencao" (Gerald Thomas on Stage, Memory and Invention) Published by Silvia Fernandes, Editora Perspectiva,Sao Paulo,Brazil Silvia Fernandes studies three distinct phases of Gerald Thomas' work: -"Mattogrosso", opera by Philip Glass and Gerald Thomas, (1989) premiered at Rio de Janeiro Opera House (Theatro Municipal) -"M.O.R.T.E." (1990) Movimentos Obsessivos e Redundantes para Tanta Estetica (Obsessive and Redundant Movements for so much Aesthetics), premiered in Brazil and Taormina Festival, Sicily and Zurich -"The Flash and Crash Days" (1991), premiered in Brazil, Lincoln Center - New York, Hamburg, Lausanne, Cologne and Copenhagen.