No Yogurt for the Dead

When Tiago Rodrigues' father was in hospital, realizing he was about to die, he was regularly visited by a woman called Teresa. She worked as a volunteer at the hospital and took the time to talk to patients to break their loneliness. Later, Tiago Rodrigues discovered that Teresa was an actress he knew well.

From his sickbed, his father began writing a book. According to Teresa, he wanted to mix his experiences as a terminally ill patient in hospital with memories from his life, particularly stories related to his work as a journalist. For example, he thought of the story of another Teresa, Teresa Torga, an obscure actress and Fado singer suffering from mental disorders, who stripped naked and walked around naked, reciting poems and singing, in one of Lisbon's liveliest streets, during a demonstration.

After his father's death, Tiago Rodrigues opened the notebook. It contained only a few lines and dots, a few scribbles, like the abstract drawings of a toddler.

In No Yogurt for the Dead, Tiago Rodrigues creates a play to imagine what his father might have wished to write in the last days of his life.