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Auditório Madalena Biscaia Perdigão
(in Biblioteca Municipal)
We know about war because the bullets stored in the dead, mutilated and sick bodies of men are cared for by women. Women who redraw the map of the shrapnel in their bodies, far away but intimate with other battles. Women who struggle with the nightmares, the silences and the pain. Women who clandestinely think about death and bring back the segments of an orange, eating a poem of viscera and peace. “Peace is Peace” is about these women. It’s a theatre of war that began in the life of journalist and poet Maria João Carvalho and then embraced the Colonial War, in the arms of her godmothers, and thought about Ukraine and Palestine. War, after all, is war. And beyond the absence of fruit on the trees, dogs and cats on the streets, beyond the absence of bread and roofs, poems are lit up like stars.
“Peace is Peace” is a show that rewrites Aristophanes’ “Peace”, affirming it as a tragedy that brings the audience face to face, body to body, eye to eye, between conflict and poem, groping for the thickness of peace among the rubble.
This show is in partnership with the D. Maria II National Theatre.
Free entry (upon collection from the CAE Ticket Office or the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum)
