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Lion d’or hired for the director Christiane Jatahy

June 27, 2022

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The Brazilian director received, on Sunday, the Golden Lion of the Teatro di Venezia Biennial for her show “The overflowing present”, co-produced and staged at the National Theater. Ulysses is reincarnated there as exiles in an Odyssey that spares no spectator.

A prize that shows all the urgency of the theater renew its forms and its subjects of choice to report on the urgency of the transformations at work in the world and in society. This show, which is the second part of his diptych devoted to his reinterpretation of“Odyssey” of Homerin fact deals with the question of refugees who here take on the features of Ulysses and fantasize their return to the motherland.


The return of utopia

Saturday evening, the show, presented at Theater alle Teseinvited us to their makeshift table, planted in refugee camps in Lebanon, Africa or Brazil, to listen to their tragic melody which merges with the actors’ own historyand which will soon be ours, so much has Christiane Jatahy done her best to break down borders between the film of these scenes which parade on the screen, the actors, who react in the room to their own representation, and the spectators, invited to interact with the “Greek choir” when tragedy gave way to celebration.

“Theatre is a political space without hierarchy. It is very close to life and that is why it can be so profound and transformative.”

Chistiane Jatahy

Director



In this unclassifiable spectacle which is all at the same time a film, a theatrical performance, a performance, a documentary and a fictionthe past and the present collide to allow a glimpse of a future that is not already written by the hand of some dictator determined to raze the Amazon or eradicate what remains of democracy. “We need utopia again!”said Christiane Jatahy, brandishing her Golden Lion.


Christiane Jatahy wins the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Theater Biennale.
©Xavier Flament


“The overflowing present”

Written and directed by
Christiane Jatahy

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Excerpt from the performance of Sunday June 26, at the Venice Theater Biennale 2022.


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