Hecuba, not Hecuba
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Representation
The Luxembourg public was able to discover the subtle work of the Portuguese author and director Tiago Rodrigues, during the performances of Sopro and By Heart, at the Théâtres de la Ville in 20·21.
For his first collaboration with the troupe of the Comédie-Française, the current director of the Avignon Festival takes on the story of Hecuba. And as is customary in his theatre to address the audience directly, he mixes the timeless issues of the ancient Trojan woman with those of a woman of today, an actress and mother, caught up in similar torments. Tiago Rodrigues is in the habit of saying that he does not write plays for the theatre but for the actresses and actors who perform the play. Here, an actress is rehearsing Euripides' Hecuba. She plays the role of Priam's widow. The one who, in the defeat of Troy, lost everything: her husband, her throne, her freedom, and to her great suffering, almost all her children. She is a woman who demands justice.
But the fictional tragedy painfully flirts with the intimate reality of the actress whose autistic son was the victim of a system of mistreatment that she denounces and rebels against. The time of the rehearsals of the show is ambiguously superimposed on that of the judicial investigation. In a unique and twilight setting, these are two worlds that come to rub against each other, in a troubled, troubling intertwining, between the tragedy of myth and that of reality, between the play of theater and that of justice.
Where does it take place?
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
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