"We know about war because the bullet, kept in the dead, mutilated, sick bodies of men, is cared for by women. Women who redraw the map of shrapnel on their bodies, distant but intimate, from other battles. Women who struggle with nightmares, with silences, and with pains. Peace is Peace is about these women. It is a Theater of War that began in the life of journalist and poet Maria João Carvalho, soon embracing the Colonial War, in the arms of her godmothers, and reflecting on Ukraine and Palestine. War, after all, is War. And beyond the absence of fruit on the trees, of dogs and cats in the streets, beyond the absence of bread and shelter, poems light up like stars.

Peace is Peace is a show that asserts itself as a tragedy that puts the audience face-to-face, body-to-body, eyes-to-eyes, between conflict and poetry, feeling the thickness of peace among the rubble."

© 2024 João Versos Roldão for UMCOLECTIVO