Mafalda Lencastre | Cactus

CACTUS - non-poetic anthology of female character profiles, is a creation by Mafalda Lencastre/Plataforma UMA.  

CACTUS is a performative and theatrical object about stuff that usually precedes it: female character profiles, ideas about female characters, or about female-character-objects. CACTUS hides an archive of voices, an inter-biographical dramaturgy shared with various actresses who contribute to this project.
CACTUS is an anthological performance built to play with an ontological flaw: seeking, through real and fictional narratives, the extinction of feminine´s representation, intertwining a classical gesture of a profile´s ascription with a poetic glitch.

When lips kiss, openness is not the opposite of closure. Closed lips remain open. Openness permits exchange, ensures movement, prevents saturation in possession or consumption. But openness dwells in oblivion . . . because it cannot be represented, nor made into an object, nor reproduced in some position or proposition.
Who knows that the possibility of exchange is born from two lips remaining half open?

(Elemental Passions, Luce Irigaray)

Creation and dramaturgy: Mafalda Lencastre
Creative support and dramaturgy: Maria Inês Marques
Interpretation: Diana Sá, Luís Araújo e Mafalda Lencastre
Production: Belisa Branças
Soundtrack and sound design: Rafael Maia
Light design: Teresa Antunes
Audiovisual recording: Fábio Coelho

A project PLATAFORMA UMA
www.plataformauma.com

With the supportof: GDA Foundation
Co-produced by: TAGV (Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente) and LIPA (Laboratório de Investigação e Práticas Artísticas)
Grant for creation: Self-Mistake
Support to artistic residency: CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Oporto