The show Stabat Mater is part of Janaina Leite's wider research into the real in theatre - now in the light of the obscene. Based on the theoretical text Stabat Mater (in Latin, mother was), by philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, the artist and researcher proposes the format of a lecture-performance on the feminine, going back to the story of the Virgin Mary, while at the same time trying to account for the erasure of her mother in her previous play, Conversations with My Father. Accompanied by her own mother and the figure of Priapus, a character for whom a porn actor was sought, she radically articulates historically irreconcilable themes such as motherhood and sexuality. With horror and pornography as her aesthetic bases, Leite investigates the origins of a historical arrangement between the feminine and the masculine, which the work attempts to disarm, not without first taking risks and confronting the mechanisms of jouissance and pain that fix these positions.