, she is out cold on stage, having drunk a draught of the same drug she was given a decade ago by a man who then raped her. The show goes on: there are extended texts projected on to a screen on stage, music and snatches of narrative staged by members of her theatrical collective. There is one jaw-dropping scene, of which more later, in which Bianchi’s body is exposed in an unprecedented way while she is still unconscious.
The story she is about to tell is about misogyny. There are moments of humour, but much more horror. We hear about women killed and left on the side of the road in Cuarez, Mexico, about the Brazilian football star who chopped up his girlfriend and fed her to his dogs, about another performance artist, Pippa Bacca, who in 2008 made a performance piece,, in which she hitchhiked through Turkey in a vast white dress. Three weeks after the tour began, Bacca was raped and killed.
“When I’m doing this in a theatre play, this is a way to articulate this also, this lack of memory,” she says. “Theatre is giving back to me some kind of reality I lost.”Advertisement
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