1-9 ©Filipe Ferreira
When we read, we make choices. We translate what we read into the language of our lives. The pages are illuminated by the candle of our experience and that flame flickers and changes colour because of what we read.
We know a book can change us. Reading the description of a ball, the reader might decide to divorce. Reading about the first glance exchanged between two characters, the reader might decide to marry. Reading a dialogue about mushrooms, a reader might decide to change jobs.
A book like Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina can also be the collection of lives it has changed slightly or decisively, for better or for worse. Lives that might change the way Anna dies.
STAN’s collaboration with Tiago Rodrigues started in 1997, when the company was invited for the first time by Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. Tiago, at the time still a student at the Lisbon theatre school, took part in a workshop led by STAN. The following year STAN created Point Blank (after Anton Chekhov’s Platonov) with Tiago in the cast. STAN and Tiago Rodrigues have kept up a regular collaboration since, with Les Antigones/Two Antigone, La Carta, Berenice, Anathema, L’avantage du doute, The Monkey Trial, and Nora. The way she dies brings together Belgian and Portuguese actors in the very first play written by Tiago for the company. The performance is a coproduction between STAN and Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, where Tiago is artistic director since 2015.
1-10 ©Filipe Ferreira
In Portuguese
text Tiago Rodrigues
by and with Isabel Abreu, Pedro Gil, Jolente De Keersmaeker and Frank Vercruyssen
coproduction STAN and Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
lighting design and decor Thomas Walgrave
costumes An D’Huys and Britt Angé
subtitles Joana Frazão
première March 9th 2017, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon
“‘The way she dies’ is a wonderful gift. Books are frequently translated into stage plays, for sure, but more often than not, they get bogged down in the struggle to put the plot across in a performance, and in so doing lose its intrinsic meaning. Here, on the other hand, the game slowly but surely reveals what Tolstoy’s text has done, what literature really does: it determined the rules of the game (of love) and the way we interpret its course. Even those who have never heard of Tolstoy, play out his story.”
Pieter T'Jonck, Theaterkrant (Choice of the critic), February 22nd 2019
“The Way She Dies is real theatre of ideas. The French translation also becomes the subject of the play. Thanks to several brilliant word plays and the trilingual ending, you start to ask yourself if the translations of Anna Karenina tell the same story. Is each translation an interpretation, is every reading personal?”
This is how we read blog, February 27th 2019
“The production has craftsmanship written all over it.”
Ciska Hoet, De Morgen, April 21st 2017
2019
February
Fri 01.02.19 20:30
Théâtre d'Arles
Arles
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Théâtre d'Arles
Arles
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Théâtre Joliette
Marseille
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Marseille
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Le Maillon
Strasbourg
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Strasbourg
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Le Maillon
Strasbourg
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CC Brugge
Brugge
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Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Amsterdam
April
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Comédie de Genève
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Comédie de Genève
Genève
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Comédie de Genève
Genève
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Comédie de Genève
Genève
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Bordeaux
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Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine
Bordeaux
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Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine
Bordeaux
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Bordeaux
may
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Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Guimarães
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Toneelhuis
Antwerpen
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Toneelhuis
Antwerpen
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Théâtre de la Bastille
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Minard
Gent
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Minard
Gent
2017
March
Thu 09.03.17 20:00
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Lisboa
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Teatro Nacional São João
Porto
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Teatro Nacional São João
Porto
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Teatro Nacional São João
Porto
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Teatro Nacional São João
Porto
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Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Toulouse
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Théâtre Garonne
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Kaaitheater
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Kaaitheater
Bruxelles
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Kaaitheater
Bruxelles