Depois do silêncio (After the silence)
The performance June 15th will be followed by an audience discussion. The performance will be in Brazilian Portuguese with German surtitles.
In DEPOIS DO SILÊNCIO, Brazilian theater and film director Christiane Jatahy deals with the enormous effects of slavery in her native Brazil – the geopolitical realities and the consequences for the personal lives of many millions of people who were uprooted by colonial violence, without a country, without an identity.
The starting point is the novel Torto Arado by author Itamar Vieira Junior, which is set in the hinterland of the state of Bahia and tells the story of three young women and their struggle for the right to land, freedom and their own identity. DEPOIS DO SILÊNCIO combines the novel with the documentary film Cabra marca dopara morrer by Eduardo Coutinho about the uncovering of the murder of João Pedro Teixeira, leader of an agricultural workers' union, and integrates its own research and interviews.
The result is a work that blurs the boundaries between documentary, fiction, play and film. An intimate and disturbing report on an unresolved past that has structural repercussions in Bolsonaro's Brazil and far beyond. It is an attempt to connect yesterday with today in the hope of paving the way for change.
Following her acclaimed Three Sisters adaptation "What if they went to Moscow" (2018), Christiane Jatahy returns once again to Freiburg.
“Christiane Jatahy affirms and demands a political theater. In other words, a theater that creates meaning, that asks questions, that does not allow itself a clear conscience. She stands in the great tradition of magical realism.”
- Marie-José Sirach, L'Humanité
Tickets | THEATER FREIBURG | Kleines Haus
Based on the book “Torto arado” by Itamar Vieira Junior published by LeYa.
Creation and text Christiane Jatahy
Artistic collaboration, set and light design Thomas Walgrave
Photography and camera Pedro Faerstein
Original Music Vitor Araujo and Aduni Guedes
Sound design and mixing Pedro Vituri
Sound (movie) João Zula
Edition (movie) Mari Becker and Paulo Camacho
Costumes Preta Marques
Collaboration text Gal Pereira, Juliana França, Lian Gaia and Tatiana Salem Levy
Interlocution Ana Maria Gonçalves
Video System Julio Parente
Body preparation Dani Lima
Direction assistance Caju Bezerra
Camera assistance Suelen Menezes
Stage manager Diogo Magalhães
Light operation Leandro Barreto
Video operation Alan de Souza
Tour manager Claudia Marques
Administration Claudia Petagna
Production coordination Henrique Mariano
With
Gal Pereira, Juliana França, Caju Bezerra, Aduni Guedes
and, for the film, Lian Gaia and the participation of the residents of the communities of Remanso and Iúna -Chapada Dimantina/Bahia/Brazil
Containing references to, and images of “Cabra marcado para morrer” by Eduardo Coutinho, Mapa Filmes production
Website christianejatahy.com