VEGETATIVE STATE

June 2017
NAVE
Santiago, Chile

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 diferent 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."

Vegetable 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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Credits

Director
Manuela Infante

Playwright
Manuela Infante y Marcela Salinas

Cast
Marcela Salinas

Design
Rocío Hernández

Design and prop construction
Ignacia Pizarro

Sound
Design Manuela Infante

Producer
Carmina Infante

Original translation
Bruce Gibbons and British Council Chile

Revised translation
Alexandra Ripp

Co-producción: NAVE, Centro de Creación y Residencia - Fundación Teatro a Mil

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