Cláudia Gaiolas and Tónan Quito revisit a text by Tiago Rodrigues
Published at — 26 November 2024
The show Coro dos Amantes, a new interpretation of the first theatre text by director and playwright Tiago Rodrigues, by artists Cláudia Gaiolas and Tónan Quito, will premiere at the Aveirense Theatre on 29 November. The performance is part of the Aveiro 2024 - Portuguese Capital of Culture programme.
Premiered in 2007, Coro dos Amantes is a choral piece in which a young couple tells, in two voices, the life-or-death situation they are experiencing when one of them stops being able to breathe. Simultaneously, the two actors/lovers tell us slightly different versions of the same events, celebrating the vital force of love when everything else is called into question and when we no longer know how to proceed normally.
The history of this play is long: in 2006, Tiago Rodrigues wrote the first part for the collective show Urgências, at the Maria Matos Theatre; in 2007, he added two more parts for the show Duas Metades, which he shared with Patrícia Portela, at Culturgest. And in 2021, she wrote the last part, in a French version, premiered at the Théâtre de Lorient.
After 17 years, Cláudia Gaiolas and Tónan Quito wanted to know what happened to that couple.
Premiered in 2007, Coro dos Amantes is a choral piece in which a young couple tells, in two voices, the life-or-death situation they are experiencing when one of them stops being able to breathe. Simultaneously, the two actors/lovers tell us slightly different versions of the same events, celebrating the vital force of love when everything else is called into question and when we no longer know how to proceed normally.
The history of this play is long: in 2006, Tiago Rodrigues wrote the first part for the collective show Urgências, at the Maria Matos Theatre; in 2007, he added two more parts for the show Duas Metades, which he shared with Patrícia Portela, at Culturgest. And in 2021, she wrote the last part, in a French version, premiered at the Théâtre de Lorient.
After 17 years, Cláudia Gaiolas and Tónan Quito wanted to know what happened to that couple.
