Carolina Bianchi's relentless denunciation of heteropatriarchal fraternities
Radical and excessive, the playwright and performer's proposal captivates or is rejected
- Concept, text and direction: Carolina Bianchi
- Interpretation: Chico Lima, Flow Kountouriotis, José Artur, Kai Wido Meyer, Lucas Delfino, Rafael Limongelli, Rodrigo Andreolli, Tomás Decina, Carolina Bianchi
- Free Theater
- Greek Festival 2025
Theater and life merge in the shows of Carolina Bianchi, a Brazilian living in Amsterdam, as we witnessed two years ago at the Teatre Lliure and within the framework of Grec 2023 with her debut among us. Cadela Fuerza: The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella It was the first part of a trilogy about sexual violence against women. A long performance in which Bianchi took drugs to fully assume the role of rape victims and which in 2025 earned her the Silver Lion at the Venice Dance Biennale. However, Bianchi is not a choreographer, although she includes choreographic phrases in her creations, and where she premiered the second part of the trilogy. The Brotherhood (The brotherhood).
In this section, she delves into the masculine group codes that ultimately determine violent behavior, ranging from movement to language, including a tribal empathy with animal roots that refers us to the culture of heteropatriarchal fraternities, to gangs of football fans, and so on.
The brotherhood It is a very textual proposal that echoes the theme of rape, the impossible resilience and the perpetual wound. Also, and with great irony, the mark of male violence in the history of theatre, from the rape of Lavínia to Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's in Chekhov's "Game-Slayer" Treplev.
The play follows the lecture-monologue format of the previous show with the addition of a very long interview that we could call: Dismantling the male that nests in great progressive and supportive theater directors.
The whole performance (220 minutes) is interesting, as is the complaint, but dramatically it is uneven with a better structured first act and a second act of a very heavy documentary nature. It wouldn't hurt to have a bit of self-parody. As we said after his debut among us, Bianchi's proposals have quite a few similarities with the creations ofAngelica LiddellLike the Figueres native, Bianchi has a powerful, magnetic stage presence and poetic writing. And like Liddell, she is radical and unbridled. She either captivates or repels.
