New York City, July 31, 2025 — This fall, New York audiences will experience a powerful reframing of a literary classic as Group Dot BR, the city’s only Brazilian theater company, presents the Off-Off-Broadway premiere of The Passion According to Janair. This one-woman production revisits Clarice Lispector’s landmark 1964 novel The Passion According to G.H.—not from the viewpoint of its affluent protagonist, but through the perspective of her Black maid, Janair, a character whose presence is central yet seldom explored.
While the novel unfolds almost entirely within Janair’s room and reflects on her actions, readers never see the world through her eyes. However, this daring theatrical work shifts the focus, placing Janair’s perspective at the center and offering an empowered reflection on race, class, gender, and narrative authority.
The Passion According to Janair explores intersectionality at its core—the overlapping experiences of being Black, female, poor, and a domestic worker. It raises urgent questions about who is seen, who is heard, and how power operates across layered systems of privilege. The play also resonates deeply with the lived realities of immigrant women across the globe, many of whom navigate precarious working and living conditions in pursuit of dignity, visibility, and survival.
This bold theatrical interpretation transforms Lispector’s inward-looking narrative into a mirror reflecting contemporary struggles around representation, domestic labor, and systemic inequality, while honoring the complexity of a woman who has always been present, just never heard.
Starring by acclaimed Brazilian actress Ana Carbatti, and directed by Andressa Furletti, a leading figure in New York’s Latinx and immigrant arts communities, this intimate production will premiere on November 5th, and run through November 23rd, 2025, at HERE Arts Center in Soho.
“This premiere draws inspiration from works like Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, turning Lispector’s introspective lens outward, toward those whose lives and labor have long been rendered invisible by systems of privilege and silence”, says director Andressa Furletti.
Tickets will be available starting August 1, 2025, at www.group.br.com/janair. Early booking is strongly encouraged for this limited Off-Off-Broadway engagement.
About Group Dot BR
Group Dot BR’s mission is to present the “calor” and diversity of Brazilian culture through the performing arts. By using avant-garde, physical, choreographic, and contemporary theatre as tools, Group Dot BR engages a multicultural community with a forward-thinking approach to its “presencial” and online programs. As the only Brazilian theatre company in New York, it supports artists by creating a bridge for exchange beyond borders and holds up Portuguese as a heritage language.
