with Juliana França, Lian Gaia, Aduni Guedes, Gal Pereira


with excerpts from the film Cabra marcado para morrer d'Eduardo Coutinho

Christiane Jatahy takes us to rural communities in the state of Bahia, Brazil with an adaptation of Torto Arado, a novel by Itamar Vieira Junior (2019), mixed with extracts from Cabra marcado para morrer, a film by Eduardo Coutinho, and fieldwork documentary images. Accompanied by a percussionist, three young women talk about life in the countryside and the struggle for land rights. Going back in time, they show how structural racism and the legacy of slavery survive in today’s society. Jatahy's story, enriched with elements of magical realism, is both political and intimate.
Off-site performance.

Cast

artistic collaboration, set, light design Thomas Walgrave
photography, camera Pedro Faerstein
music by Vitor Araujo, Aduni Guedes
sound design, mixing Pedro Vituri
costumes Preta Marques
collaboration text Juliana França, Lian Gaia, Gal Pereira, Tatiana Salem, Ana Maria Gonçalves
video system Julio Parente
assistant director Caju Bezerra
collaboration and assistant Henrique Mariano

production Cia Vértice - Axis productions


coproduction Schauspielhaus - Zürich, Centquatre-Paris, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Wiener Festwochen, Teatro Piccolo di Milano Teatro d'Europa, Arts Emerson - Boston, Riksteatern - Sweden, Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne - centre dramatique national, Théâtre national Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre populaire romand - La Chaux-de-Fonds centre neuchâtelois des arts vivants, deSingel - Antwerp, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm - Frankfurt, Temporada Alta - Festival de Tardor Catalonia, Centro dramatico national - Madrid


Christiane Jatahy is an associate artist at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, the Centquatre-Paris, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Arts Emerson Boston and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d'Europa


Compagnie Vértice is supported by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Île-de-France - Ministère de la culture.

Director

Christiane Jatahy was born in Rio de Janeiro. Within the Companhia Vértice, which she founded in 2004, she constructs devices that cross the resources of theatre and cinema, and works on the porosity between the actor and the character.

An internationally renowned artist, she has made a name for herself in Europe with Julia and What if They Went to Moscow? based on Strindberg's Mademoiselle Julie and Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Associate artist at the Odéon since 2016, she has presented A Floresta que anda (The Walking Forest), after Macbeth, and a diptych inspired by Homer: Ithaca (Our Odyssey 1) (2018) and The Present that Overflows (2019). In 2021, she will create Entre chien et loup , based on Dogville by Lars von Trier, the first chapter of the 'trilogy of horrors', devoted to the mechanisms of Bolsonaro's rise. This was followed by Before the Sky Falls, created at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich and again inspired by Macbeth; and Depois do silêncio (2022, with the Centquatre), which explores the history of slavery and land exploitation in Brazil. In January 2022, she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her body of work in theatre