Letícia Rodrigues’s 116 Grams: A Play to Lose Weight is a fiercely satirical and emotionally raw Edinburgh Fringe performance about body policing, shame and the scrutiny faced by women deemed overweight. Framed as an attempt to lose 116 grams during a one-hour show, it exposes the damaging expectations placed on female bodies and challenges assumptions about who is allowed to appear on stage.

Rodrigues plays Gorda, an autobiographical Brazilian character shaped by childhood diet clubs and later rejected at castings because of her size. Performed in Portuguese with English surtitles, the show combines exercise, dance, boxing and near-nudity with music by Britney Spears and Swan Lake; its final ballet is described as moving rather than celebratory, underlining the pressure to shrink or erase bodies such as hers.