As Far as Impossible

text and direction Tiago Rodrigues
creation 2022
as a part of the France-Portugal season
with the Festival d'Automne à Paris

in French, English and Portuguese, with surtitles in English and French

duration 2h

20 September – 14 October 2022

Berthier 17^e

with Adrien Barazzone, Beatriz Brás, Baptiste Coustenoble, Natacha Koutchoumov et Gabriel Ferrandini (musician)

https://www.theatre-odeon.eu/www.theatre-odeon.eu/annulations-8-octobreThis play, which premiered in February 2022 at the Comédie de Genève, is based on interviews with members of the Red Cross International Committee and Médecins sans frontières. It weaves together stories and captures the experiences of humanitarian workers with the rich simplicity that characterises Portuguese author and director Tiago Rodrigues. On stage, a piece of cloth transforms into a tent, a hospital, a mountain… while four actors and a musician narrate the stories and evoke the violence they go through. The unbearable is felt but never shown. When words are not enough, the drums take over, as if we are approaching the unspeakable.

duration 2h

Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
no show on Monday

in French, English and Portuguese, with surtitles in English and French

Previews on 17 and 18 September

Happy Thursday 22, 29 September and 6, 13 October

translation in French Thomas Resendes
stage design Laurent Junod, Wendy Tokuoka, Laura Fleury
music Gabriel Ferrandini
light Rui Monteiro
sound Pedro Costa
artistic collaborator, costumes Magda Bizarro
assistant director Lisa Como, Renata Antonante

production Comédie de Genève.

coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Piccolo Teatro – Milan, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II – Lisbonne, Équinoxe – scène nationale de Châteauroux, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG – Udine, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne – Rennes, Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg scène européenne, CDN Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire, La Coursive – scène nationale de La Rochelle

with the collaboration of the CICR – Comité international de la Croix-Rouge et de MSF – Médecins sans frontières

in corelalisation with the Festival d’Automne à Paris

as a part of the France-Portugal season 2022.

Dans la mesure de l'impossible, by Tiago Rodrigues, translated in French from Portuguese by Thomas Resendes, is published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2022

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