RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

In the beginning was the song. After the song “Língua Brasileira” by Tom Zé, the collaboration between the composer, Felipe Hirsch and the collective Ultralíricos was born. From this collaborative work emerges a passionate epic of the peoples who formed the language we speak: their myths and cosmogonies, passing through remote Iberian origins, through Romans, barbarians and Arabs, through Africa and Native America. Língua Brasileira is a tour of the unconscious of Brazilian Portuguese, its graces and tragedies, its “splendor and grave”.

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FELIPE HIRSCH

 

Cinema and theater director, is one of the founders of Sutil Companhia (1993-2012). Worked with important actors such as Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Autran, Paulo José, Renato Borghi, between others. His first feature film, Insolação, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Since 2013 directs the collective Ultralíricos, created at the Frankfurt Book Fair with the tetrology Puzzle, which was followed by the projects A Tragédia e Comédia Latino-Americana, Selvageria and FIM, performing in Brazil, Germany, Portugal and Chile. In 2017, Severina, his second feature film, premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival.

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LÍNGUA BRASILEIRA
 

music: Tom Zé | general direction: Felipe Hirsch | cast: Amanda Lyra, Danilo Grangheia, Georgette Fadel, Laís Lacôrte, Pascoal da Conceição, Rodrigo Bolzan | musical direction: Maria Beraldo | musicians: Fábio Sá, Fernando Sagawa, Luiza Brina, Thomas Harres | assistant director: Juuar | dramaturgy: Ultralíricos, Felipe Hirsch, Juuar, Vinícius Calderoni | dramaturgist/ general consultant: Caetano Galindo | art direction: Daniela Thomas, Felipe Tassara | lighting: Beto Bruel | costumes: Cássio Brazil | sound design: Tocko Michelazzo | vocal preparation: Yantó | video design: Henrique Martins | assistant director and video operation: Sarah Rogieri | research assistant: Adriano Scandolara | stage manager: Nietzsche | lighting assistant: Sarah Salgado | costume assistant: Alice Tassara, Marcelo X | light operation: Sarah Salgado, Igor Sane | sound operation: Le Zirondi, Lúdi Lucas | graphic design and set assistant: Bárbara Bravo | artwork on the poster: Thiago Martins de Melo | press office: Factoria Comunicação, Vanessa Cardoso | Tom Zé's production: Neusa Santos Martins | first phase production: Bruno Girello and Ricardo Frayha* | international acquisitions: Ricardo Frayha | first phase production assistant: Renata Bruel | production assistant: Diogo Pasquim | executive producer: Arlindo Hartz | director of production: Luís Henrique Luque Daltrozo | A project by Ultralíricos and Sesc-SP ​

 

Teatro Anchieta, Sesc Consolação
São Paulo, SP

premiere 06.01.2022 ​

 

* first phase refers to January to March 2020, until the project got interrupted days before its premiere by the Covid-19 pandemic. It resumed at the end of 2021 and premiered in January 2022 with a new production team.