with Ezekiel Chibo, Patrice Le Rouzic, Angélica Liddell, Borja López, Gumersindo Puche, Palestina de los Reyes
Spanish artist Angélica Liddell realised while reading a text that she makes theatre like the bullfighter Juan Belmonte fought bulls: that is, driven by a yearning for life and therefore a yearning for death. Liebestod (literally: "love death") is a provocative performance in which radiant imagery shares the stage with highly charged language. In a red and gold arena, Angélica Liddell excites a bull. A colossal man stands still with several cats on leashes. A carcass descends from the sky... A deeply moving and cathartic experience.
Certain scenes may offend the sensibilities of spectators.
Cast
stage design, costumes Angélica Liddell
light Mark Van Denesse
sound Antonio Navarro
costumes Justo Algaba
assistant director Borja López
some scenes may offend the sensibilities of some audience
production Atra Bilis, NTGent
coproduction Festival d’Avignon, Tandem – scène nationale Arras-Douai, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm – Francfort
in corealisation with the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Liebestod, L’odeur du sang ne me quitte pas des yeux. Juan Belmonte, by Angélica Liddell, translated in French from the Spanish by Christilla Vasserot, is published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2021
Director
Angélica Liddell founded her company Atra Bilis in 1993. Director, author and performer, she has written some twenty plays that are as moving as they are divisive, and is now a major figure on the European stage.
She made her name in France in Avignon in 2010 with El año de Ricardo and La Casa de la fuerza, revived in 2012 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, where she returned with Todo el cielo sobre la tierra (Le syndrome de Wendy) in 2013, You Are My Destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia) in 2014 and Primera carta de San Pablo a los Corintios in 2015. After Que ferai-je, moi, de cette épée? at the Avignon Festival in 2016, she will present The Scarlet Letter at La Colline-théâtre national in 2019, and in 2020 a diptych devoted to the mourning of her parents, Una costilla sobre la mesa Madre & Padre. In 2022, she will play Liebestod at the Odéon, inspired by the bullfighter Juan Belmonte.
Her theatre work is published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs.
Practical Information
duration 2h
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
no show on Monday
some scenes may offend the sensibilities of some audience
in Spanish, with French surtitles
Surtitled performance in English on Saturday 12 November
All performances are surtitled in French
Happy Thursday 17 November