Carolina Bianchi & Cara de Cavalo
(São Paulo/Amsterdam)
The Cadela Força Trilogy. Chapter 1: The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella
Location: Frankfurt LAB (Gallus)
Theater
- 15.07.2023, 8.00 pm20 Euro (red. 8 Euro)
- 16.07.2023, 7.00 pm20 Euro (red. 8 Euro)
We find ourselves in an environment where the past and present collide and repressed experiences return. Here Carolina Bianchi speaks in disturbing terms about femicides that have occurred in recent decades. As she does so, she places herself in a position of maximum vulnerability. While she describes how the performance artist Pippa Bacca was raped and murdered during one of her performances in 2008, Bianchi swallows some knockout drops. Under the influence of the drug (also known as “Good Night Cinderella”), she becomes sleepy and eventually unconscious. This personally motivated performance outlines boundaries that many survivors of abuse have to face. What can an unconscious and memoryless body tell anyone? Will Bianchi’s body ultimately be forgotten while other scenes, rituals and dialogues play out in the theater?
This performance is not recommended for persons aged under 18
Duration: approx. 140 min.
Language: Brasilian Portuguese with German and English Surtitles
German premiere
Content warning: this performance contains references to rape and violence.
Cast & Credits
Conception, text, dramaturgy and direction: Carolina Bianchi
Dramaturgist and partnership in continuous research process: Carolina Mendonça
Cast: BlackYva, Carolina Bianchi, Chico Lima, Fernanda Libman, Joana Ferraz, José Artur Campos, Larissa Ballarotti, Marina Matheus and Rafael Limongelli
Technical direction, Sound design and Original music: Miguel Caldas
Set design and Art: Luisa Callegari
Light design: João Rios
Videos and Screenings: Montserrat Fonseca Llach
Karaoke Video: Thany Sanches
Costumes: Tomás Decina, Luisa Callegari, Carolina Bianchi
Art Assistant and General artistic collaboration: Tomás Decina
Dialogue on theory and dramaturgy: Silvia Bottiroli
Translation of texts into English and revision: Luisa Dalgalarrondo, Marina Matheus, Joana Ferraz, Larissa Ballarotti
Translation to French (subtitles): Thomas Resendes
Stage Manager and Production Support: AnaCris Medina
Production Direction and Tour Manager: Carla Estefan
International Management and Diffusion: Metro Gestão Cultural
Production: Metro Gestão Cultural, Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo
Coproduction: KVS Brussels, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, Frascati Producties (Amsterdam). Residencies: Frascati Theater, DAS Theatre (Amsterdam), Festival Proximamente/KVS (Brussels), Festival 21 Voltz/Central Elétrica (Porto), Pride Festival (Belgrade), Greta Galpão (São Paulo) e Espaço Desterro (Rio de Janeiro). With the Support of Ammodo Foudation, DAS Theatre Master Program, 3 Package Deal of the AFK – Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst / Coalition: DAS Theatre, NDSM and Over ’t IJ Festival, Theater der Welt, Kaaitheater.
„Theater der Welt Frankfurt-Offenbach 2023“, ein Festival des Internationalen Theaterinstituts (ITI), wird veranstaltet von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Schauspiel Frankfurt und Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, in Kooperation mit dem Amt für Kultur- und Sportmanagement der Stadt Offenbach am Main. Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, das Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, die Stadt Frankfurt am Main – Dezernat für Kultur und Wissenschaft und den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.
Biography
Carolina Bianchi & Cara de Cavalo
Carolina Bianchi is a writer and theater-maker who lives and works in São Paulo and Amsterdam. Her work is dedicated to undermining the patriarchy and uses phantasmagoria, historical lines, the battle of the sexes, colonial legacies, and eroticism as performative tools. Her theater work ‘The Bride and Good Night Cinderella’, whose world premiere in 2023 is produced with her collective Cara de Cavalo from São Paulo, is Part One of the ‘Cadela Força Trilogy’, in which Bianchi works on experiences of sexual and gender-specific violence.