In December 2019, Paul B. Preciado spoke before 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Drawing inspiration from a short story by Franz Kafka in which an ape that mastered human speech speaks before a scientific conference, Paul B. Preciado addressed an audience of psychoanalysts as a non-binary trans man, not only to denounce the intrinsic violence inflicted by psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis on people considered homosexual, trans, intersex or non-binary, but also to invite psychoanalysis to open up to gender and sexual mutations that are happening in contemporary times. Preciado’s lecture resulted in a monologue as intimate as it is political, aimed not only at psychoanalysts as a community, but also at individuals and their ability to embrace change.

Preciado’s biopolitical spectacle now leaves the book and enters the stage. The text becomes a collective monologue read in five voices, addressed not only to the psychoanalytic community but to each of us and our capacity to embrace change and imagine a new utopia. “There is a historical proximity of people who have been expelled from the public space and who have been pushed into the theatre space,” says Preciado.

For reasons of force majeure, BoCA and Culturgest announce that Paul B. Preciado is unable to come to Lisbon in September to take part in the performance "Can the monster speak?", of which he is the director, author of the text and one of the performers. To replace him on stage, Paul B. Preciado invites actor Alex Silleras.