Alberto Guzik died last Saturday (26), aged 66, from stomach cancer. Author, actor, critic, playwright, writer and always a fighter in the trenches of Brazilian theater, Guzik leaves a gap in the current scenario.
Guzik began his career as a child actor at the age of five, in 1949. He was a student at EAD – Escola de Arte Dramática – in the 60s, and soon after moved on to become a theater critic, writing in several newspapers in São Paulo.
During the 70s, 80s and 90s he had an important role as a critic, writer and playwright, until he decided to return to the stage. In the 2000s, he became an actor, linked to the theater company Os Satyros, located in Praça Roosevelt, downtown SP.
With Os Satyros, Guzik acted in "Transex", "Life in Roosevelt Square" and "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser", among others. He anthologizes his performance in "Transex" (2004), dividing himself into two characters – one of them, a hilarious old school transvestite.
In 2009, he starred in "Monologue of the Old Presenter", a kind of satire on certain TV presenters. In the story, Guzik played a TV veteran suffering blackmail from thieves who kidnap her maid.
On Twitter, Guzik defined himself as follows: "I'm a man of theater. And of letters. And of the arts, almost all of them."
