# Jules Verne at Casa das Rosas opens the week's cultural agenda

An immersive voyage aboard the Nautilus on Avenida Paulista, three new films and three stage productions make up the guide for anyone who wants to enjoy the city in the coming days.

- Section: Arts & Culture
- Published: November 13, 2026
- Address: https://ceoone.com.br/en/article/jules-verne-at-casa-das-rosas-opens-the-weeks-cultural-agenda
- Em português: https://ceoone.com.br/artigo/julio-verne-na-casa-das-rosas-abre-a-agenda-cultural-da-semana.md

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Photo: Wilfredor/Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

## Key points

- Casa das Rosas opens an immersive Jules Verne exhibition on November 13, with five rooms and a visit of about 40 minutes, running until December 13.
- New in cinemas: How to Rob a Bank, by David Leitch, Ebenezer and the Ghosts of Christmas, starring Johnny Depp, and Parallel Tales, by Asghar Farhadi, starring Isabelle Huppert.
- On stage: the comedy O Jogo Duro do Amor, the monologue Surda, with Benedita Casé Zerbini, and the musical Ordinary Days, back in Brazil after ten years.

Casa das Rosas opens an immersive experience dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905) this Friday, November 13. Titled 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and Other Extraordinary Voyages, the exhibition turns the Avenida Paulista mansion into a route through five rooms that combines literature, technology and scenography, in a visit of about 40 minutes.

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The Casa das Rosas mansion on Avenida Paulista. Photo: Boaventuravinicius/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The common thread is Captain Nemo's journey aboard the Nautilus, the submarine at the heart of the novel published in 1869. In the story, the vessel is entirely independent of dry land: Nemo has broken with nations and with humanity itself, living only on what the sea provides for his crew. The plot holds a delightful irony: mistaken for a narwhal, a giant cetacean, the submarine ends up hunted by ships such as the Abraham Lincoln.

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The Nautilus engine room in Alphonse de Neuville's engraving for the book's original edition. Illustration: public domain/BnF Gallica

Verne also became famous for anticipating, in his adventures, technological innovations and scientific discoveries that would only come to exist decades or centuries later. His commitment to accuracy and plausibility, even in the most fantastic plots, lies at the root of a genre that was still emerging at the time and that he helped to found: science fiction.

Literary critic André Cáceres summed up the paradox in Estadão: Verne pushes literary realism to such an exaggerated level of detail that it spills over into the fantastic. He also recalls the context that shaped the author. The last untouched islands were discovered around 1820; Verne was born into the first generation that could no longer explore the Earth but did not yet have the means to conquer space. What remained was to explore the world through words.

## New in cinemas

How to Rob a Bank, the new feature from David Leitch, director of Bullet Train, starts from a premise made for the social media age: robbing a bank and streaming the heist live online. The gang turns every robbery into a spectacle and gains followers, until fame draws the attention of a seasoned FBI agent and a software engineer, who set out on the group's trail.

Festive in mood but darker in tone, Ebenezer and the Ghosts of Christmas brings a new version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to cinemas, now directed by Ti West, of the X, Pearl and MaXXXine trilogy. Johnny Depp plays the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, and by other spirits that force him to face the consequences of his choices.

In Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi directs Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Cassel and Virginie Efira in the story of Sylvie, a writer in a creative slump who spends her days secretly watching her neighbours in search of inspiration for a book. When she hires Adam to help with everyday chores, a chain of unexpected consequences reaches everyone: her, the neighbours and the fiction itself.

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Isabelle Huppert, who plays the writer Sylvie, at Cannes. Photo: Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

## Theatre

The comedy O Jogo Duro do Amor is structured as a giant board game, in which the audience follows the birth and life of a couple facing the financial dilemmas of building a life together. The cast features Ingrid Gaigher and Gabriel Godoy.

In the monologue Surda, Benedita Casé Zerbini plays a woman living with progressive hearing loss, marked by layers of sound that only she can hear. Sirens, voices, buzzing, noise and sound memories blend together and reveal a paradox about silence.

The off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days returns to Brazilian stages for the first time in ten years. Created by American composer Adam Gwon, the show reflects on relationships and loneliness as it follows four young people whose lives cross unexpectedly in New York.

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Teatro Ruth Escobar, in Bixiga, where Ordinary Days is running. Photo: Dornicke/Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

## Visitor information

### 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and Other Extraordinary Voyages
Casa das Rosas, Av. Paulista, 37, São Paulo
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5:30pm
Prices: R$ 15 and R$ 30, free admission on Tuesdays
Running: until December 13

### O Jogo Duro do Amor
Teatro Villa Lobos, Av. Dra. Ruth Cardoso, 4,777, São Paulo
Hours: Thursday and Friday, 8pm; Saturday, 5pm and 8pm; Sunday, 6pm
Prices: R$ 25 to R$ 120
Running: until December 20

### Surda
Sesc Ipiranga, R. Bom Pastor, 822, São Paulo
Hours: Thursday to Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 6pm
Prices: R$ 60
Running: until December 13

### Ordinary Days
Teatro Ruth Escobar, R. dos Ingleses, 209, São Paulo
Hours: Monday and Tuesday, 8pm
Prices: R$ 30 to R$ 120
Running: until December 15

## Sources and editorial notes

- Based on information from O Estado de S. Paulo, Cultura & Comportamento section, Divirta-se page C6, November 13, 2026.

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