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By Heart (Apprendre par cœur)
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By Heart

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(Apprendre par cœur)

In By Heart, the Portuguese director and director of the Festival d'Avignon, tells us the story of his grandmother who, now blind, asks her grandson to choose a book for her to learn by heart. But what exactly does it mean to "learn a text by heart"? And how can we, along with the audience, stay as close as possible to this question, its urgency, its charge?

By inviting ten spectators onto the stage each evening to perform this gesture, Tiago Rodrigues is not content to blur the boundaries between theater, fiction and reality. He invites men and women - Shakespeare's "Sonnet Platoon 30" - to experience, for the duration of the performance, a singular experience: that of retaining a text and saying it on stage. An act of resistance and struggle against time, oblivion, aging, absence or disappearance. A moving gesture, as intimate as it is political.

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"By Heart", présentation par Tiago Rodrigues
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Vilnius New Drama Action Festival | Vilnius
Battersea Arts Centre | Londres
The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts | Brighton
UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance | Los Angels
Walker Art Center | Minneapolis
Alliance Française de New York | New York
Points communs | Cergy-Pontoise
Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse | Lyon
Onassis Stegi | Athènes
Théâtre National de Nice | Nice
In collaboration with Scène 55