In an interview with Contemporânea magazine, in 2017, Pedro Barateiro said that Opening Monologue “foresees an audience, I address myself to an audience, to someone I see. I am in a moment of questioning in relation to a number of things: why science and the idea of ??progress in science, which has already evolved so much but we are still in a situation where these scientific developments can do nothing about the ecological crisis that befalls us. ” “Opening Monologue” focuses on how language is being transformed by technology.