Take Me Somewhere | MEXA (Brazil) - The Last Supper

Part of Take Me Somewhere Festival, 15 to 26 October 

A group of people sits at a table for a meal. Someone announces it will be the last. The group will no longer exist. It’s a farewell. It could be fiction, but it isn’t always. Tonight, no one will be saved.

MEXA is an artistic collective formed in 2015 following episodes of violence in homeless shelters in São Paulo. The collective explore the boundaries between reality and fiction, autobiography, documentary, and theater of the real. Over the years, some of its members have disappeared.

In MEXA’s new performance, directed by João Turchi, the collective draws from Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the same name to revisit—through their own lived experiences—the idea of death, resurrection, and the possibility of creating a final image for a group that is about to end. Combining celebration, transmission and solidarity, MEXA makes theatre into a living ritual, in which the stage becomes a space for sharing and recollection.

How does one go on alone when the collective no longer exists? Who tells the stories of bodies that can no longer speak?

Recommended for ages 14+

Audience notes

This show includes:
Explicit discussion of violence and murder
Reference to racism and antiblackness
Religion and religious imagery
Alcohol will be available and offered to audience
Strong Language

Sensory notes
Loud Music
Sudden Loud Sounds
Full Blackout
Flashing Lights
Strobe
Lasers 
Scent (hot food)
Audience interaction/optional particiption
Audience offered food (optional)
Audience offered alcohol (optional)

ACCESS 

This performance is spoken in Portugese with Closed Captions in English

Limited Sub Pacs are available from Tramway Box Office

Ear Defenders, Ear Plugs and Dark Glasses will be available

Visit the Take Me Somewhere Festival Access Page

Artist Bio

MEXA is an artistic collective active since 2015 in São Paulo. Emerging from the context of shelter homes, it explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, autobiography, documentary, and theater of the real.  The collective has performed at festivals such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Transform Festival (Leeds), and at institutions including HAU Theater and Sophiensaele (Berlin), Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon), Kampnagel (Hamburg), and Kaserne (Basel, as well as exhibitions like the 38th edition of the Panorama of Brazilian Art and the 2025 São Paulo Biennial. The group has been an artist-in-residence at Casa do Povo (São Paulo) since 2016.

Credits

Creation: MEXA
Direction and Dramaturgy: João Turchi

Performance and Co-Creation: Aivan, Alê Tradução, Dourado, Patrícia Borges, Suzy Muniz, Veronika Verão and Tatiane Arcanjo

Video Performance, Video Creation, and Technical Direction: Laysa Elias

Assistant Director, Movement Assistance and Performance: Lucas Heymanns

Soundtrack, Sound Design, and Performance: Podeserdesligado

Lighting and Performance: Iara Izidoro

Executive Production: Francesca Tedeschi (Casa do Povo)

Art Direction: Lu Mugayar

Local Production: Cibelle Lima

Costume Design: Anuro Anuro and Cacau Francisco

Set Design: Vão

Vocal Direction: Dourado

Contributors to the Creative Process: Anita Silvia, Daniela Pinheiro, and Gustavo Colombini

Dramaturgical Collaboration: Olivia Ardui

Artistic Consultancy: Guilherme Giufrida

Production: MEXA

MEXA is a group associated to Casa do Povo (São Paulo, Brazil)

Co-Production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Casa do Povo, Kampnagel – Internationales Zentrum für Schönere Künste

Photo Maringas Maciel