Combate de negro e de cães is a nocturnal tragedy set within a closed territory: a white enclave surrounded by a night that does not belong to it.
From the watchtowers, the presence of Black guards is sensed — figures who embody a structural contradiction: servants and sentinels, protection and threat, interior and exterior at once. They form a sonic frontier between worlds — the guttural calls echoing through the night sustain the siege, yet make it vibrate, opening fissures.

The enclave’s fragile normality is disrupted by the arrival of Alboury, a Black man who crosses the perimeter to claim the body of his brother, Noufia, killed under suspicious circumstances at the whites’ construction site. He refuses to leave without the body.
Amid bougainvillea and at the edge of visibility, explanations fail through excess: words that deflect, justify, conceal. The conflict thickens as strategies accumulate and cancel one another out.
There is no hope: the body has disappeared and will not be returned.
Alboury leads and carries out an unannounced revolt — the tragic asserts itself as a relentless sonic and territorial siege.

Teatro GRIOT continues its investigation into how power is organised, how language sustains it, and how the presence of the Other destabilises it. With Black Battles with Dogs, the company deepens its relationship with the universe of Bernard-Marie Koltès, initiated in 2024 with In the Na solidão dos campos de algodão.