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Lovers’ Chorus

Tiago Rodrigues

The first play by the Portuguese writer, director, and artistic director of the Avignon Festival, as well as his most autobiographical one. Two parallel monologues, two voices that sound like one, present the subtly different versions of their love story.

A couple in the middle of the night. “I can’t breathe,” she says. “She can’t breathe,” he repeats. They rush to the car and head to the hospital. The play of the Portuguese writer and director Tiago Rodrigues grabs us from the very first phrases.

“Lovers’ Chorus” transports us to the center of a couple's relationship as they step on the threshold of a life-and-death experience. From there, it explores the course of their shared life, a ‘together forever’ against time and corrosion. Two parallel monologues, two voices that sound like one, present the subtly different versions of their love story.

Tiago Rodrigues’ “Lovers’ Chorus” is published in Greek in a translation from Portuguese by Maria Papadima, as part of the play’s presentation on the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage during the season 2024-2025.

This is the first play by the Portuguese writer, director, and artistic director of the Avignon Festival, as well as his most autobiographical one, which he began writing in 2006 and completed in 2020.

It is the play’s inaugural presentation in Greece, commissioned and curated by Onassis Stegi.