Coro dos Amantes (Portugal)
'Lovers’ Choir', by Tiago Rodrigues, is a lyrical narrative where a young couple recounts, in two voices, the life-or-death situation they are experiencing when one of them can no longer breathe. Simultaneously, the two actors/lovers present slightly different versions of the same events, celebrating the vital force of love when everything else is called into question, and normality becomes unreachable.
Lovers' Choir is Tiago Rodrigues's first written text. The play premiered in 2007 at Culturgest in Lisbon, featuring Cláudia Gaiolas and Tónan Quito.
In 2021, Tiago Rodrigues revisited the piece to add a "song" about the passage of time, the continuation of the lovers' lives, and the enduring love that defied death. This 2021 version, performed alternately by Alma Palacios or Océane Caïraty and David Geselson or Grégoire Monsaingeon, premiered on September 24, 2021, at Théâtre de Lorient.
Cláudia Gaiolas and Tónan Quito return to this text to question what has happened to them. What happened to this couple? As if they were questioning themselves through these characters.
Credits:
Co-creation and interpretation: Cláudia Gaiolas, Tónan Quito
Text: Tiago Rodrigues
Stage design and lights: Thomas Walgrave
Costumes: Magda Bizarro
Production: HomemBala
Coprodution: Aveiro 2024 – Capital Portuguesa da Cultura / Câmara Municipal de Aveiro / Teatro Aveirense, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras, Cineteatro Louletano
Tour dates:
17 – 20 de setembro de 2025: TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisboa (Portugal)
26 September 2025: Teatrocine Torres Vedras (Portugal)
More information:
Tónan Quito – HomemBala
homembala18@gmail.com
Photograph: © Joana Linda
