24.05, 26.05, 28.05

Carolina Bianchi São Paulo-Amsterdam-Brussels

The Heart of Darkness

talks

Théâtre Les Tanneurs

Arrival with wheelchair to be communicated during online reservation or through box officeAccessible for wheelchair usersSeating without backrest | English | ⧖ ± 1h30 | €12 / €9

Literature and poetry are central fields of research in Carolina Bianchi’s work. In her previous play, The Brotherhood (Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025), she first introduces herself as an author, then as a director, and occasionally as a performer. Across her creations—marked by a thorough exploration of theatrical form—she remains in constant dialogue with writers: Dante’s journey from Inferno to Paradiso, Sarah Kane, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot, who viewed theatre as “the ideal medium for poetry”. Conversation with other artists has become a core element of her practice, a way to reveal the ongoing processes of contamination that shape each voice. For this edition, Bianchi presents a series of three nocturnal conversations: Romeo Castellucci on Dante, Alice Diop and Édouard Louis on writing. In a late-night talk format, she opens a malleable, intimate space to drift through conversation with each guest. Apart from the interview as a performative and solid form of self-presentation, Bianchi enters a more vulnerable register and the softness of a shared moment at night. Host and guest in armchairs with an audience gathered around, for a series of talks that lasts only one season and three episodes.

24.05

  • 22:30
  • with Romeo Castellucci

26.05

  • 22:30
  • with Alice Diop

28.05

  • 22:30
  • with Édouard Louis

Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Les Tanneurs
A project by and with Carolina Bianchi | Producer: Carla Estefan, Metro Gestão Cultural
Production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts

 

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