The texts read during the performances were never made public in order to emphasize orality and so that the audience could be fully focused on listening and on the present moment.

Isabel Carvalho reads a sequence of short narratives in variable order, which she calls O CHÁ MU (THE MU TEA). Mu tea was suggested by Professor Álvaro Lapa to students in their first year of psychology in 1995, in one of their first classes, with no obvious reason to justify this. Isabel Carvalho later learned that it is tea made from several herbs and roots that are believed to strengthen the female reproductive organs, and should only be drunk with moderation because it possesses considerable yang energy. As a metaphor for memory, the choice of the title reflects the updating of old school memories, recovered and remixed with her work after finishing her studies and her resumed contact with Álvaro Lapa’s oeuvre. 

2018