with
Isabelle Huppert
Isabel Abreu
Tom Adjibi
Nadim Ahmed
Suzanne Aubert
Marcel Bozonnet
Océane Cairaty
Alex Descas
Adama Diop
David Geselson
Grégoire Monsaingeon
Alison Valence
et les musiciens
Manuela Azevedo
Hélder Gonçalves

Until recently, the Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues had always considered Chekhov's final masterpiece as « a play about the end of things, about death and farewells » : after all, its plot revolves around the sale of an old family property and the sacrifice of an almost hundred-year-old orchard. But Rodrigues now sees it as a celebration of change, a whirlwind of creative destruction. In its midst stands Lyubov. This Cherry Orchard where she lost a son is practically a part of her soul. So why doesn't she do anything to prevent its being seized and auctioned away? Isabelle Huppert will play the part of Chekhov’s unforgettably « complex, extravagant and lunar » heroine, in a Cherry Orchard that should be, according to Rodrigues, a mirror of « our uncertain times ».

Cast

traduction André Markowicz, Françoise Morvan
artistic collaboration Magda Bizarro
scenography Fernando Ribeiro
light Nuno Meira
costumes José António Tenente
make-up/hair Sylvie Cailler, Jocelyne Milazzo
music Hélder Gonçalves (composition), Tiago Rodrigues (paroles)
sound Pedro Costa
assitant director Ilyas Mettioui

production Festival d’Avignon

coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Théâtre national Dona Maria II – Lisbonne, Théâtre national Populaire de Villeurbanne, Comédie de Genève, La Coursive – scène nationale de la Rochelle, Wiener Festwochen, Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, National Taichung Theater – Taïwan, Teatro di Napoli – teatro nazionale, Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Compania Teatro Festival, Théâtre de Liège, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

avec le soutien de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian

avec le soutien du Cercle de l’Odéon

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