TRISTE! TRISTE... TRISTE?

TRISTE! TRISTE… TRISTE? is a solo play created and directed by Nicolas Ahnert, starring Thalles Cabral, based on the book "Triste não é ao certo a palavra" by Gabriel Abreu. The play explores the experience of grief and the early loss of a mother through the relationship between memory, identity and representation.

SYNOPSIS
A son learns that his mother has only one month to live. When he discovers that she has been keeping secrets about her past, he sets off on a race against time to find out who she really was, before it is too late. As he dives into that past, the boundaries between his memories and hers begin to blur. When a mother ceases to exist, what is left of a son?