09 — 12.05
Carolina Bianchi, / Cara de Cavalo São Paulo-Amsterdam-Brussels
The Brotherhood
TRILOGIA CADELA FORÇA – Capítulo II
theatre — premiere
| Portuguese, English → FR, NL, EN | €25 / €20 | ⧖ 3h with a 15min break | Contains nudity, explicit sexual content, alcohol abuse, references to suicide and sexual violence
Theatremaker, writer, and performer Carolina Bianchi is internationally acclaimed for her powerful stage presence and brutal eloquence. With The Brotherhood—the second part of her Cadela Força trilogy on sexual violence—Bianchi explores masculinity as a brotherhood that renders men untouchable, part of a system that perpetuates violence against women, yet still provokes admiration in art history. She uses the theatre world as subject, language, and apparatus, exposing the faux progressivism that gives intellectual masculinity free rein as an exclusionary mechanism.
The play portrays an aversion to but also fascination with male power dynamics, and how to navigate them as a woman. In the first act, Bianchi interviews heavyweight theatre director Klaus Haas. In the second act, a group of male performers hijack the show. References to the British playwright Sarah Kane and the writer Emily Brontë are woven in between.
Bianchi and her Cara de Cavalo collective create dialogues between theatre phantasmagoria and trauma, personal writing and radical poetry, the origins of misogyny and the consequences of rape, and tie them to sexuality, representation and performance. An iconoclastic production awaited internationally, in world premiere at Kunstenfestivaldesarts.
"We have never heard someone talk so overwhelmingly about sexual violence against women in theatre before." - Filip Tielens, 2023 (about The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella), De Standaard
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Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, KVS
Concept, text and direction: Carolina Bianchi | With: Chico Lima, Flow Kountouriotis, José Artur, Kai Wido Meyer, Lucas Delfino, Rafael Limongelli, Rodrigo Andreolli, Tomás Decina, Carolina Bianchi | Dramaturgy and research partner: Carolina Mendonça | Dialogue on theory and dramaturgy: Silvia Bottiroli | Translation to English: Marina Matheus | Translation to French: Thomas Resendes | Technical direction, sound design and original music: Miguel Caldas | Assistant direction: Murilo Basso | Set concept: Carolina Bianchi, Luisa Callegari | Art direction and costumes: Luisa Callegari | Light design: Jo Rios | Videos and screenings: Montserrat Fonseca Llach | Live camera and artistic support: Larissa Ballarotti | Internship: Fernanda Libman | Choreographic resurrection of prologue and movement advisor: Jimena Pérez Salerno | Stage manager and production support: AnaCris Medina | Production assistant: Zuzanna Kubiak | Production direction, tour management and communication: Carla Estefan | International relations, production and diffusion: Metro Gestão Cultural
Production: Metro Gestão Cultural, Carolina Bianchi Y Cara de Cavalo | Coproduction: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, KVS, Theater Utrecht, La Villette, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Comédie de Genève, Kampnagel International Summer Festival, Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, Frascati Producties, HAU Hebbel Am Ufer, Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg
With the support of the Ammodo Foundation and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest
