Faz Escuro nos Olhos is a show made up of texts by various authors, such as Sergi Belbel, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf and Howard Barker. It is an agglomeration of independent stories linked by the same theme: the imbalance of human relationships, sometimes based on power and sometimes trapped by a lack of communicability, a potential generator of violence. The director and actors have constructed a show that seeks the cadence behind the targets and effects of violence. Universal themes such as family, war, old age, childhood, poverty and money run through this creation.

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Faz Escuro nos Olhos is a theater of quasi-monologues that is ultimately about (dis)affection. There is no emotion, no commitment, no revealing pieces of text, not a single happy fragment, just a stage, where the actors, in front of those watching, occupy that place where abuse has many faces, where, perhaps in the silence, a voice appears that cannot be silenced.
 

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Rogério de Carvalho, director

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“ We live, constantly, in a universe of voices. We are bombarded with relentless voices. Voices that scream, whisper, cry, caress, threaten, implore, seduce, order, supplicate, pray, confess, terrorize, declare... But words speak when we confront them, in the infinite tonalities of the voice, when we covey meaning.

Not all voices are heard, even the most anguished and desperate might not be heard. Perhaps in the silence there is another more pressing voice, the internal voice, a voice which cannot be silenced."