In this new unfolding of Projeto Reconciliação that started in 2018, Alexandre Dal Farra and Patrícia Portela present Trauma. The video frames evoke traumatic events that roam the scene but do not show directly - whether being stories of the characters referring to the Covid-19 pandemics or comments about the contemporary political context.

This skewed approach differentiates from the Reconciliação, the first medium-length film. Here, the artists propose a kind of purge, whether a monologue vomited by an actor that walks in a hurry in the city or in the image of a collapsing iceberg. In Trauma, the frames bring daily scenes, dialogues, and images that, despite the words, remain in a continuous tension of what is not said, suggesting the co-existence of trauma and routine. The artists advance in their reflection about reconciliation as an acceptance of impossibilities that also make the processes of living one with the other.

Alexandre Dal Farra
Director, playwright, and writer. He worked with different Brazilian and foreign groups and directors. In Tablado de Arruar, he wrote and co-directed the Trilogy Abnegação, about the place of political thinking and the current Brazilian left-wing.

Patrícia Portela
Writer, playwright, and author of performances. She lives between Portugal and Belgium. She is the art director of Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, Portugal, and author of the novels Dias Úteis and Hífen, among others.

Credits
Text and direction: Alexandre Dal Farra and Patrícia Portela
Casting: Célia Fechas, Clayton Mariano, Gabriela Elias and José Genoino
Camera: Otávio Dantas
Sound: Amarelo
Stagecraft: Tomás Pereira
Production: Corpo Rastreado

11/25 Thursday 7:00 pm 
YouTube @SescSP
Duration: 85 min
Parental guidance: 14 years
Partnerships and support: DGArtes, Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Ibérica (Fitei) and Prado Produções 

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