Cordyceps
Event
Memory and democracy are the subjects that power the creators Eduardo Molina, João Pedro Leal and Marco Mendonça. After “Parlamento Elefante”, in “Cordyceps” they take the concept of end. We are on the last day of democracy and this is the last spectacle to can be seen in a free environment. The agent behind this situation is “cordyceps”, a fungus as real as the virus that plagues our lives these days. This endoparasite – which in nature infects insects and turns them into a kind of zombies –now contaminates humans, crippling their aspirations and free will, making them easy prey for lies and conspiracies. Could it be that all of us are already infected? What will come after the collapse of democracy? The malleability of memory, manipulation and parallel universes place us on that fine line between truth and lies, in everyday life and in the theatre, whether or not the authors of “Cordyceps” were their supreme conspirators. In this dystopia, engineered before the pandemic, the collective gives us a distorted but true portrayal of the times we live in.
