With Estado Vegetal she does the seemingly impossible: she writes a text for about ten characters which centres around a dialogue with plants. Her surprising text is performed by one actress, Marcela Salinas, in an equally comical and tragic rendition. And we haven’t even mentioned the breathtaking set design yet.

Manuela Infante is a Chilean theatre director, (script) writer and musician. She majored in cultural studies in Amsterdam. Manuela has written 15 theatre texts to date and creates her own performances, which she tours through America and Europe. 

Estado Vegetal in the press

“Estado Vegetal sends you home with beautiful images etched onto your retina, a lump in your throat, and one huge question in your mind: ‘How does something that cannot move live?’”
— Knack

"Infante’s meditation on plant intelligence succeeds in unsettling; one is not likely to look at anything that photosynthesises in the same light after this."
- The Straits Times

"Ultimately, Estado Vegetal is a profoundly fascinating piece, stunning in its innovative sound design and hypnotic in its presentation of plant perception."
- Backhormeeboy
 
“The vegetative universe becomes tangible not as a result of ecological activism but rather obliquely. The polyphonic monologue of the incredible Marcela Salinas feeds and feeds off itself in a superimposed, many-layered loop.”
- Revista Ñ, Argentina