WAS WIR IM FEUER VERLOREN

About the show

Powerful, tragic, and with bitter humor—Chilean director Manuela Infante stages a finely composed play with five women in which voices spread, change, and merge with each other in endless variations. A collective of fluid identities that spreads like wildfire. Manuela Infante unfolds a thought experiment about radical forms of self-defense and the spread of violence when it is made visible. What freedom arises when one escapes the normative assignments of identity? The play is based on the story ‹Was wir im Feuer verloren› by Argentine author Mariana Enriquez. In the face of a series of femicides, more and more women decide to perform a ritual of self-immolation, inflicting burns on themselves that they later display in public. The movement spreads like wildfire. Society is at a loss: Who are they? What does their action mean? Is it a political movement, an act of revenge, or a mystical practice? Why are they doing this?