“A garden is made of light and sound. Plants are merely supporting elements.”

— Burle Marx

A Dantesque painting from 1500.

The same year as the creation of the nation of Brazil following the invasion of these lands—blessed by Father Anchieta and his theater, which tirelessly pursued the work of catechization.

2,000 years after the inception of the Christian world and its mythologies.

60 years after the creation and naming of the paradisiacal space that would come to be called Brasília—blessed by religious figures and political “prophets.”

Jardim das Delícias (Garden of Delights) emerges within this context. It is the seventh production by Grupo Liquidificador, a collective that treats group coexistence as a research project, intertwined with the individual ethics of each show’s creators. The blending of artistic languages ​​and the exploration of boundaries between art forms serve as the primary engine for this work. Seven years is the time it takes for the human body to completely shed and renew its skin; seven, therefore, acts as the symbolic portal that opens in this new piece.

We have borrowed (or perhaps pirated) scenes from Hieronymus Bosch’s painting, aiming to bring to the stage the conflicts between these images and the human body, alongside the soundscapes and landscapes they depict. Throughout the creative process, we drew dramaturgical inspiration from Gertrude Stein’s “landscape plays,” as well as texts written by the performers themselves, alongside works by Clarice Lispector, Antonin Artaud, Shakespeare, and others. Beyond these texts, the production is defined by lyrical scenes and “body-discourses”—images suited for an era in which language is evolving at a rapid pace. We invite you on a playful journey, one that seeks to transform ethical and aesthetic horizons through a spiral of vertigo, imagery, and political bodies. The polis—the city—placed inside a blender: an organism that refuses to appease. In an era defined by the battle over media imagery, "fake news," post-truth, and a moral desperation to define what is good, beautiful, and true, Jardim das Delícias (Garden of Delights) emerges from a need for indeterminacy and the (re)construction of horizons—a desire to explore (and perhaps blur?) linguistic boundaries in search of alternative modes of expressive communication.

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Production: Grupo Liquidificador;

Cast: Ana Quintas, Aila Beatriz, Fausto Augusto Candido, Josuel Junior, Larissa Souza, Lui L’Abbate, Nininha Albuquerque, and Tassiana Rodrigues;

Directors: Fernanda Alpino and Fernando Carvalho;

Dramaturgy: Fernando Carvalho;

Texts: The Cast, Fernanda Alpino, Fernando Carvalho, Clarice Lispector, Antonin Artaud, the Book of Genesis, David Foster Wallace, and William Shakespeare;

Movement Coaching: Nininha Albuquerque;

Original Soundtrack: Malena Stefano;

Set and Costume Design: Coletivo entre-vazios (Roberto Dagô and Luenia Guedes);

Assistant Set Designer: Ramon Lima;

Lighting Design: Ana Quintas;

Assistant Lighting Designers: Lui L’Abbate and Larissa Souza;

Press Relations: Josuel Junior;

Teaser and Photography: Duda Affonso;

Movement Consultant: Luara Raio;

Vocal Consultant: Renio Quintas;

Production Assistants: Natasha Albuquerque and Gustavo Haeser;

Production: Grupo Liquidificador and the Jardim das Delícias Team