Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo

In the first part of The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella, Brazilian artist Carolina Bianchi gives a lecture in art history, focussing on the representations and real stories of women who have been brutally raped and murdered. Like Italian artist Pippa Bacca, who was killed while hitchhiking across Europe wearing a wedding dress, as part of an artistic project.

What follows is the confusion between reality and fantasy. Carolina Bianchi mixes a drink with goodnight cinderella – a date rape drug that leaves its victims incapacitated and completely defenseless. Her body is left in the hands of the eight performers of the Cara de Cavalo collective, with whom the piece is created. This is reality after trauma, a place where past and present collapse. A nightmare.

Contains detailed descriptions of violence against women, femicide, date rape drugs, rape, self cutting.

Credits

Conception, text and direction Carolina Bianchi Dramaturgist and partnership in continuous research process Carolina Mendonça Cast Alitta, 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 Lighting design João Rios Videos and screenings Montserrat Fonseca Llach Karaoke Video Thany Sanches Costumes Tomás Decina, Luisa Callegari and Carolina Bianchi Art Assistant and general artistic collaboration Tomás Decina Dialogue on theory and dramaturgy Silvia Bottiroli Collaboration in body and voice training Pat Fudyda and Yantó Stage manager and production support AnaCris Medina Production direction, tour manager and communication Carla Estefan Produced by Metro Gestão Cultural (Brasil), Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo Coproduced by Festival d’Avignon, KVS Brussels, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Frascati Amsterdam Residency to finish the play and set construction La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon Residencies Frascati Theater, DAS Theatre (Amsterdam), Festival Proximamente/KVS (Brussels), Festival 21 Voltz/Central Elétrica (Porto), Pride Festival (Belgrade), Greta Galpão (São Paulo) and Espaço Desterro (Rio de Janeiro) Supported by Theater Der Welt, The Ammodo Foudation, DAS Theatre Master Program, 3 Package Deal of the AFK - Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst / Coalition: DAS Theatre, NDSM and Over ’t IJ Festival, Kaaitheater International management and difusion Metro Gestão Cultural

*The text of this show is made up of various stories, real-life documents and literary fictions. Some references are quoted directly in the text of the show. Others are worth highlighting here: In the first part of the show, the text contains quotes from Nathalie Léger and her book La Robe Blanche, from Renan Marcondes and his text Foto Fantasma, and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. In the second part of the show, the actress Alitta collaborates in her monologue, and quotes from Roberto Bolaño in his book 2666, and from writings by Rita Laura Segato.