A divinely violence raises the victim above the monotonous life in witch men carry on their calculated living. Cruelty can derive towards eroticism, as well as, eventually the massacre of prisoners may aim cannibalism. The return to an animality, the definitive oblivion of limits is unconceivable in war. Thirst for blood, delirious warriors, however, do not massacre each other mutually [Bataille].

‘essay on cruelty’ does not only regard one but to all the crude and rough battles, bloody and unnecessary. To navigate into these scenarios based on the banality of evil, two characters were selected: The Queen of Spades [Lewis Caroll] and Mr. Fatzer [Bertold Brecht]. A dialog in between them both can be almost a non-dialog indeed. A tension among the Alice’s immersible trip thought this scenario and the horror portray in the mediatized massacres images. What is this place? _ asks our character. It is a flesh trade._ answers another one.

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2007 _ INTERNACIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL OF RIO PRETO, SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO, BRAZIL

2007 _ LABOR, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

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music [ free improvisation] : THOMAS ROHRER _ rabeca, sax and ANTONIO PANDA GIANFRATTI _ contemporary percussion
photos: GAL OPPIDO
‘Alice’ live interpretation: PATRÍCIA GORDO
thanks to ROBERTA MAHFUZ