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OCT 24 - 27
Performed by Zahy Tentehar
Conception & Dramaturgy by Zahy Tentehar & Duda Rios
Directed by Denise Stutz & Duda Rios
Upstairs Studio
From Brazil: Sarau Cultura Brasileira's
Azira’i
Um Musical de Memórias
Performed by Zahy Tentehar
Conception & Dramaturgy by Zahy Tentehar & Duda Rios
Directed by Denise Stutz & Duda Rios
Upstairs Studio
Run Time: 90 minutes (no intermission)
Performed in Portuguese and Ze’eng eté with projected English translation
Audience Notice: Some explicit language. Most enjoyed by ages 12+.
Additional Credits:
Presented in partnership by Chicago Latino Theater Alliance and Chicago Shakespeare Theater as part of Destinos – Chicago International Latino Theater Festival.
North American Premiere
A cultural high point of our city’s Latino Heritage Month, the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival Destinos showcases Latino theater artists and companies from around the world. Azira’i is presented in partnership by the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a partner since the festival’s inception.
This biographical play looks at Zahy Tentehar’s relationship with her mother, Azira’i, the first female Shaman from the Cana Brava reserve (MA), who held the rank of Supreme Shaman of the Tentehar peoples, which is only for people with extremely developed medicinal and spiritual knowledge.
The relationship between mother and daughter takes place in a necessarily conflicting context, in an extremely patriarchal northeastern interior and in a culture torn between preserving its ancestral values and absorbing the dynamics and ills of a globalized civilization system. At the same time as Zahy is the daughter chosen by her mother to inherit the gifts of shamanism and communication with the Mairas, it is also in her that Azira’i unloads the frustrations of existing in a colonial and oppressive environment.
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7:30 PM / Thursday , Oct 24
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Run Time: 90 minutes (no intermission)
Performed in Portuguese and Ze’eng eté with projected English translation
Audience Notice: Some explicit language. Most enjoyed by ages 12+.
Additional Credits:
Presented in partnership by Chicago Latino Theater Alliance and Chicago Shakespeare Theater as part of Destinos – Chicago International Latino Theater Festival.
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Tickets Available
Limited Availability
Multiple Performances
Sold Out
Spotlight
From Brazil to the World
Destinos Festival 2024
Now in its 7th year, Destinos showcases the most extensive line-up of Latino theater artists in the festival’s history, featuring 22 productions at theaters large and small all over the city, with works from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the U.S., and Chicago.