RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Vegetative State is a polyphonic, branching, exuberant, reiterative, divisible and sessile monologue. Its protagonist is a woman, who is not an individual; she is a multitude, a swarm. This is not an animal play, it is a vegetable play. Based on the revolutionary thinking of plant philosopher Michael Marder and plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, the exploration consists of probing the ways in which new concepts such as plant intelligence, vegetative soul, or plant communication can transform our creative practice. If we accept that plants have other ways of thinking, feeling, communicating, other way of being intelligent, a different form of consciousness and another notion of time, perhaps we can see our own notions of thinking, feeling, communicating and being aware, transformed. In Michael Marder’s words, “recognizing a “valid “other” in plants is also beginning to recognize that vegetal other within us.” Vegetative State dances tirelessly around an impossible dialogue, that of humans and plants. A failed dialogue with nature that is, perhaps, our most innate monologue.

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MANUELA INFANTE

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Is a Chilean playwright, director, scriptwriter and musicians. Between 2001 and 2016 she worked as a playwright and director of the company Teatro de Chile. On her own, she has premiered Fin, in the Festival of Modena; What’s he building in there?, created in an artistic residence at The Watermill Center, space of investigation of Bob Wilson; On the beach, curated by Bob Wilson and premiered at the Barishnikov Arts Center in New York; and Don’t feed the humans, premiered at the Hebbel am Uffer in Berlin. Outside Chile, her work has been presented in Holland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Japan, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Argentina.

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ESTADO VEGETAL

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Direction: Manuela Infante | Dramaturgy: Manuela Infant, Marcela Salinas | With: Marcela Salinas | Design: Rocío Hernández | Production: Carmina Infante | Prop Design: Ignacia Pizarro | Voice Recording: Pol del Sur | Coproduction: NAVE Centro de Creación y Residencia, Fundación Internacional Teatro a Mil

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Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production directors: Ricardo Frayha, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes

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Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Mirada Festival Ibero-Americano de Artes Cênicas

Teatro Brás Cubas, Santos, SP, Brazil

14 to 15/09/2018