Between theater and musical comedy, Tiago Rodrigues, a major figure on the European theater stage and director of the Festival d'Avignon, explores the connection between intimate and collective memory through the evocation of his late father.
After the death of his journalist father, director Tiago Rodrigues opens the notebook in which his father had been working non-stop on a final article. Instead of text, he finds only fragments, lines, dots, abstract drawings devoid of meaning. Entering into the gaps and the frustration provoked by this discovery, he creates a labyrinthine and poetic piece about grief, memory, ghosts and the power of storytelling, set to live music blending singing and guitars.
Sixth installment in the celebrated Histoire(s) du Théâtre series initiated at NTGent by Milo Rau, No Yogurt for the Dead multiplies aesthetics and genres exploring all the means of the stage, from realism to onirism, from narrative to musical comedy to reveal theater's ability to listen to the dead and make them speak with the living.
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About Tiago Rodrigues
With his company Mundo Perfeito, co-founded with Magda Bizarro in 2003, Tiago Rodrigues has created around thirty shows and quickly gained access to the most prestigious European and then international stages, multiplying collaborations with artists from all around the world. An established playwright, he also writes film and TV scripts, articles, poetry and essays. Tiago Rodrigues' theater is written for actors and actresses, and aspires to a poetic transformation of reality through the tools of the stage. Artistic director of the Théâtre National Dona Maria II in Lisbon for seven years, then of the Festival d'Avignon since 2021, he teaches at the Belgian dance school P.A.R.T.S. directed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and at La Manufacture in Lausanne.
Cast and credits
Text and direction: Tiago Rodrigues
With: Beatriz Brás, Hélder Gonçalves, Lisah Adeaga, Manuela Azevedo
Dramaturgy: Kaatje De Geest
Directing assistance: André Pato
Set design: Sammy Van den Heuvel
Costume design: Ilse Vandenbussche
Lighting design: Dennis Diels
Sound design: Frederik Vanslembrouck
Music: Hélder Gonçalves
German translation: Lut Caenen
Production : NTGent
Coproduction : Culturgest Lisboa, Piccolo Teatro Milano - Teatro d'Europa, Wiener Festwochen
