Have you ever thought about watching a play that reflects on death from inside a cemetery? This is the proposal behind the disruptive Queda de Baleia ou Canto para Dançar com Minha Morte, a solo by Bruna Longo, co-directed by Vitor Julian, which encourages thinking about a subject that is still taboo in Western society.
The monologue comes about after the actress, playwright and director who stars in the play lost her father in 2022. In the process of mourning, she observed the frigid bureaucracy surrounding mortuary processes, which are increasingly rapid, making it impossible for those left behind to perform rites of passage to elaborate on the pain and delicacy of the moment.
What can we expect from Whale Fall or Singing to Dance with My Death?
In this solo play, the actress imagines her own death, provoking reflection on the taboo of the end of life in everyday life. Together with Bruna Longo, as she mourns herself, the audience will contemplate topics such as the human relationship with finitude, the process of eliminating the funeral rite in Western capitalist societies, fear, silence and the denial of death.
For us Westerners, death is perhaps the last insurmountable taboo. We don’t talk about it. We don’t know how to deal with it. Yet it is also the only inexorable certainty. […] The process of dying has been sanitized, bureaucratized. Advances in science and medicine have prolonged our lives, but they have also changed the way we die. […] Funeral rites are increasingly rapid, standardized and industrialized. – The artist comments.
Be sure to check out this disruptive piece!
Queda de Baleia ou Canto para Dançar com Minha Morte is being presented in the chapel of the Cemitério do Redentor, located at Avenida Doutor Arnaldo, 1105 – Sumaré, until October 26, with performances from Friday to Sunday, always at 7pm.
Tickets cost R$60, or R$30 for half-price tickets. The chapel holds an audience of 20 people, which makes the experience even more intimate. It also lasts 80 minutes.
