With David Abad, Ahimsa, Yuri Ananiev, Nicolas Chevallier, Guillaume Costanza, Electra Hallman, Elin Klinga, Angélica Liddell, Borja López, Tina Pour-Davoy, Sindo Puche, Daniel Richard, Nemanja Stojanovic and the participation of Erika Hagberg

For fifteen years now, Angélica Liddell has shocked European theatres with her radical approach and the power of her polysemic images. The second part of a cycle devoted to dying, Dämon El funeral de Bergman turns its attention towards a figure that has always been at her side, Ingmar Bergman. The Swedish filmmaker, who passed away in 2007, carefully arranged for his death, choosing the coffin, clothes and music. Everything was put down in writing. Before passing away, he also established the list of his internal “demons”: fear, anger, laziness… Starting from there, Angélica Liddell invites us to confront our own future and delivers on stage the cathartic strength to help us ward off the dread one sees when confronting the inconceivable.

Cast

text, direction, set design, costumes Angélica Liddell
lighting Mark Van Denesse
sound Antonio Navarro
assistant director Borja López


production Atra Bilis / Iaquinandi SL

coproduction Festival d’Avignon, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Teatros del Canal – Madrid, Théâtre de Liège, Théâtre dramatique royal – Dramaten / Stockholm, Grec – Festival de Barcelone

international co-production Prospero – Extended Theatre*

Acknowledgmentsto the The Ingmar Bergman Foundation


* Prospero – Extended Theatre is a project co-financed by the European Union's Creative Europe programme

creation at the Festival d'Avignon 2024

Biography of Angélica Liddell

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.