NO WORDS, the new creation by Marcio Abreu and companhia brasileira de teatro to be premiered in August 2021, is inspired by “An Apartment on Uranus” by Paul B. Preciado. In an empty apartment for sale, a series of encounters take place during one day. Different characters, constantly on the move and in a state of transition, pass through this apartment. We don´t know where they come from or where they are heading to. Everything is transitory. People encounter each other and generate new impulses of life, bits of new stories, unexpected events, images of the future. In the end, we will find them all together: the image of a multitude to come, in a dizzying reinvention of bodies and languages.

NO WORDS aims to be a piece of today, by, for and with people of today. A piece which inscribes itself into the present and projects into a possible future where each singularity can vibrate and enlighten different ways of life.

In Portuguese with German/French subtitles.

Duration: aprox. 90 min.

A production by companhia brasileira de teatro. In coproduction with Instituto Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro/BR, A Gente se fala produções – Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne – Centre Dramatique National and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main. Supported by Passages Transfestival Metz, Secretaria de Cultura e Economia Criativa – Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

„Never forget who and what you are and why!“ is a decisive sentence in Preto (Black). Based on the overarching question of the prospect of interpersonal dialogue and coexistence, companhia brasileira de teatro examines the emergence of discriminatory behaviour in contemporary societies. The company combines the Brazilian point of view with a global perspective, philosophy with literature, music with anthropology and theatre with visual arts. The ideas formulated by Achille Mbembe in his pioneering work „Critique of Black Reason“ on the history and consequences of slavery, serve as a point of departure for an examination of the impact and fallout of colonialism. The company operates within the context of current protests and demonstrations on the streets of Brazil and aims to provide vital political and global artistic work. With great lust and energy, the performance adopts and destroys stereotypes, using quotation and noncompliance to cast a doubly harsh light on the treacherous images embedded in our heads. The performance’s vital element is a critical self-interrogation by the performers on stage.

In Portuguese with German and English subtitles.

Duration: 90 min

A production by companhia brasileira de teatro. In coproduction with HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi Scène conventionnée pour la diversité linguistique and Sesc São Paulo. With the support of Petrobras. 

In PROJETO bRASIL, companhia brasileira de teatro draw a very complex picture of Brazil far off Copacabana and carneval. For two years, the company travelled through all brazilian regions (North, North-east, Middle-west, South-east and South) in order to meet people and collect their stories and memories through interviews and exchanges. In associatively juxtaposed scenes they take the audience on a journey through the recent history of Brasil and create a humorous and intelligent reflection about the actual situation of South America´s biggest country. For that, the five actors and musicians use texts and contributions of political debates around the topics of a latinamerican unity, the globalization and the introduction of gay marriage. Since its premiere in January 2015, the piece has been staged in various brazilian cities and was presented in 2016 in Dresden and Frankfurt in the frame of the festival „Projeto Brasil“. PROJETO bRASIL is the piece of our times, the utopia of an artistic implementation and application of courageous realpolitical experiments in the midst of pure dystopia, crisis and black hole. Marcio Abreu is considered one of the most gifted and courageous theatre authors and directors of Brazil.

In Portuguese with German and English subtitles.

Duration: 60 min.

A production of companhia brasileira de teatro. Supported by Petrobras.

Krum was written in the 1970’s by Hanoch Levin, a young author influenced by Tchekhov and Beckett, in a young country immersed in conflicts and contradictions. Only in the author’s life period, from 1943 to 1999, were seven wars. He started to write early and in strong opposition to the state of things. His voracious critic to the State violence and the occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territories caused scandal and strong reactions.

Krum is a play with two funerals and two weddings. There are no great achievements, everything is ordinary. Between the two ceremonies we see, in a sequence of short scenes, the painting of the habitants’ life of a remote neighborhood. We laugh at them. It is a play about people. What is at stake is the human matter. There is in the Tchekhov of the meantime, the Beckett of the post-war, the Levin of the end of the XX century and us today something in common. While the turbulent world distill its violence, people try to move on with their lives, confined in their homes, with feeding expectations, consumption dreams and hope for better days.

Duration: 110 min.

A production by Renata Sorrah and companhia brasileira de teatro.