“And no one will be arrested”, Maria Vitória Theater
Iris Redol, 26, accuses the owner of the Maria Vitória theater in Lisbon, of having fired her for being a trans woman. The actress Marta Gil corroborates this version.
Graduated in fashion design, this was the first job of Redol Iris as a dressing room and “Everything was doing very well”tells the observer, noting that he received “compliments” and that “it was all optimal.”
But after three days of work, Iris Redol was fired after he crossed for the first time with the director and owner of the Maria Vitória theater, Helder Freire Costa, in the dressing room of actor Paulo Vasco, where he says he has sense “looks” allegedly prejudiced from the entrepreneur.
Two days after this meeting, he received a phone call saying he didn’t need to go to the theater. And the next day, Iris says that the producer of the Maria Vitória Theater, André Camilo, informed her that it was farewell.
“It is not necessary to see anymore because the Helder [Freire Costa] refuses to accept that you are a womanrefuses to accept to treat you with the name and no longer wants to work here, does not accept what you are“André Camilo said, as reported by the.
“He just apologized, I was without reaction on the phone,” he adds.
“This is not a clown,” says owner of Maria Vitória
Hélder Freire Costa justifies the dismissal with the fact “Not being consulted” As for hiring, and says that “not everyone serves to be in the dressing rooms,” according to statements to the newspaper, the first to report the case.
“The dressing rooms have values”adds the entrepreneur of 83 yearswhich is more than 58 years old dedicated to the theater, being a central figure in the management of Maria Vitória, one of the iconic spaces of Parque Mayer, and in the preservation of the magazine theater in Portugal.
The producer confirms the meeting with Redol Iris in the theater, noting that he was “confronted with A person in the dressing rooms with man voice“, And that was” almost two meters high “and was” strong “.
“I stayed: ‘So what is this? Carnival has passed‘”He reports the sunrise.
Helder Freire Costa says this is how he knew it was the new dressing assistant. “But with authorization from whom?”will have asked at the time, as reported by the same newspaper.
“No person comes in. Behind the scenes of any theater, people don’t enter the boss. The dancers may be undressed. If they say they have to have confidence with those who are here, ”he adds.
“This is a theater where the greatest figures in our country worked,” “It’s not a clowning,” he continues, concluding that “If he is a man, he has to say he is a man, if he is a woman has to say that he is a woman“.
Ripid Ripid Iris, in statements to the Observer, that “it is not for the security of the dancers, the question is clearly not this.” “He didn’t like having a trans person to work there“, Considers.
“Everyone knows that the iris was failed to be trans”
She was the previous dressing assistant, Camila Fernandes, who nominated a round iris to replace her, and reports to the observer that “she was carefully informing the production of the Maria Vitória Theater that she would be replaced by a trans person.”
“I was already aware that the [Hélder Freire] Costa, for being A person of age and other timesera a little prejudiced And with some questions, ”he notes.
“It makes no sense, a completely competent person to make a job be fired simply because it is who it is,” he says.
A Actress Marta Gilone of the actresses that starred in “And no one is arrested?”, Ask the scene currently at Maria Vitória, also tells the observer that “everyone knows that the fact that the iris was farewell was for being trans“.
“AND a sad and pitiful situation This in 2025 happens in a theater that is a place of freedom for me, a place where we can all be whatever we want, and it didn’t happen, ”the actress still laments.
Actor Miguel Sousa also tells the sunrise that thought of saying goodbye when he arrived at the theater “and this information circulated that the iris had been failed to be”.
“If there is a place that should be safe for everyone, this is the core of the arts. And that’s not what happened,” says Miguel Sousa.
However, Iris Redol sought legal support Along with Opus Diversity, a non -governmental organization that acts on the defense of the human rights of LGBTQI+people.
