Comemadre
Based on the book by Roque Larraquy

The story of Comemadre is set in 1907 at a sanatorium on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where a group of scientists embarks on a monstrous experiment designed to explore the boundary between life and death. With disarming cynicism, peculiar humour, and a bizarre horror atmosphere, Larraquy paints a world steeped in despair and grotesque, where men entirely dominate its dramatic action and narrative. The all-male group of doctors at the sanatorium, with what seems like self-righteous entitlement, and despite their initial moral reservations, control the lives of dozens of people, orchestrating a dystopia from which even they cannot find an emergency exit. As the experiment progresses, one woman—the head nurse—becomes the object of desire for the entire scientific team. With ruthless clarity, the author lampoons his own gender, exposing its flaws in the fields of male authority, self-actualisation, ambitions, love, and the search for meaning.

The performance serves as an allegory for present-day humanity, a satire on toxic masculinity with lyrical digressions. Through the story of a group of incredibly ludicrous, unexpectedly dangerous and mediocre scientists, it attempts to dissect apathy. Amid beheadings, stretchers, cigarettes, ballots, and male phantasies, a fundamental component of human nature is utterly gutted. Does this desolation leave any trace behind?