Decay

Preview: Portalegre, September 2023
Premiere: Materiais Diversos, Alcanena, September 2023

100 years ago, Judith Teixeira wrote Decadência, a collection of love poems ploughed into the scorched silence of the flesh. Luísa Demétrio Raposo now says, with flesh and blood, that "all writing is sex".
What is this heat that sets women on fire and makes them reborn transfigured?
Decadence is a spectacle about fire that brings us closer to a woman who burns in her words - "there is fire in the fire where she levitates / she levitates inside her skin". Can we respond to the historical violence of the gesture of someone who burns a woman for having loved? After all, who burns whom?

a UMCOLLECTIVE show
Co-production - Portalegre Arts and Entertainment Centre, Miscellaneous Materials
Structure team - Bruno Caracol, Cátia Terrinca, João P. Nunes, Raquel Pedro, Ricardo Boléo, Rui Salabarda and Sara Afonso, with Luísa Demétrio Raposo and Patrícia Andrade
Structure funded by the Directorate-General for the Arts with the support of the Municipality of Portalegre, Teatro do Convento