Fuego Fuego

Dramaturgy and direction Manuela Infante

Manuela Infante’s unique, intelligent and poetic perspective of brings fire to life.


After the success of Estado vegetal, in which Manuela Infante explored how plants feel, think, and communicate and their relationship with humans, now the Chilean playwright looks at fire, its omnipresence and its devastating and transforming power.

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Forest fires break out on exploited land. Fossil fuel wells burn out in the open air. The globe boils. Burning tyres and traffic lights serve as barricades on city streets. Arson attacks that in a single flash illuminate oppressions obscured by decades. Inflamed speeches. Sparks that spread contaminating revolutions. A wildfire embraces the world we live in. The future in smoke seems to be escaping us. Fire doesn't just destroy. Fire illuminates. Fire transforms what it unleashes its fury on. Sitting with our heads in our hands, so many times we watch it do it, dreaming. It is not the arsonist that creates fires. It is the fire that educates the arsonist. A stranger to our intentions and distinctions, fire, an inhuman force, that roars. With Fuego Fuego I continue my search for a non-human theatre, making the roar of this black animal reverberate on stage.


Manuela infante, author.

• Show included in the season tickets.