REVIEWS

PAULINA NÓLIBOS - CORREIO DO POVO
"The Gompa Collective's staging utilizes many surprising resources for children and adults, from models to projections and puppets, spectacularly manipulated by Liane Venturella, who lead us through the many adventures of the stories's two female characters, in an effort to poetically reconstruct the 2024 flood in Rio Grande do Sul (...) With the recent memory of the events, the little girl's fable leads her contemporaries, us, directly or indirectly affected in this climate of chaos, to poetize, inviting us to create resources, to perceive the networks of care at work, to establish new connections, to begin again. A small ode to resilience and to the aestheticization of disaster as a way to escape the chaos. (...) The Gompa Collective's work, once again, invests in the historical element to produce a fable from documents, producing a delicate masterpiece. (...)

In the current situation, the predicted climate crisis is beginning to show its consequences. And "The Girl with the Water Eyes," with its international trajectory, also uses the Rio Grande do Sul experience as a warning and a cautionary tale. The reality of the images, the memory of the experiences, transcend the trauma and construct a plot where humanity reappears in its most fragile and compassionate aspect, joining forces to protect and restore the dignity of those affected, until they return home, affirm the possibility of a new beginning, and hope. Undoubtedly, a work for all ages, reflecting on childhood and the future of all."
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