After the book Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Júnior
Staging: Christiane Jatahy
Zürich-Premiere: 9. February 2023, Schiffbau-Box
apporx. 100 Minutes
Depois do silêncio is the final part of a “trilogy of horror” in which director Christiane Jatahy explores the fascistic politics of President Jair Bolsonaro in her native Brazil. Following Entre Chien et Loup at the Comédie de Genève and Before the Sky Falls at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Depois do silêncio takes on the theme of slavery. Based on Vieira Júnior’s internationally praised debut novel, Christiane Jatahy goes to the mountainous backcountry of the state of Bahia. In collaboration with Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous communities of Remanso and Iúna – Chapada Dimantina/Bahia/Brazil. living there, she uses the means of theater and film to tell the story of two sisters whose freedom is only the colonial mask of their ancestors’ slavery.
