Last Supper/Last Supper

MEXA is a collective founded in 2015 in response to increasing gender-based violence in shelters for people in the homelessness crisis in São Paulo. Over the years, some of its members disappeared, others died, and still others ceased to create together. Drawing on personal experience, the Last Supper turns to the Bible to look at the concepts of death and resurrection.

At a long table, the group tries to create a final image — one that will survive even when the collective ceases to exist. How to move on alone when there is no community anymore? Who will tell the story of these bodies, today condemned to silence?

Subsequent dishes and stories intertwine the lives of the performers with religious references: the transformation of the body of Christ and the gender transition, the growing presence of evangelical churches in Brazil, the fragility of life and the promise — similar to that made by the new evangelists — to bring to life the history of those who have passed away.

Combining celebration, remembrance and solidarity, MEXA transforms theatre into a living ritual in which the stage becomes a space for community, sharing and remembrance.