No Yogurt for the Dead – Theatre Stories VI

In No Yogurt for the Dead , Tiago Rodrigues , artistic director of Festival d'Avignon, is inspired by a true story about his father . Rogério Rodrigues, a respected Portuguese journalist, began writing a newspaper article in his final days in the hospital. Every day, his father wrote in his notebook about a story regarding his experiences as a terminal patient. Zowel Tiago like his father knew that this would be his last article. When his father passed away, Tiago Rodrigues opened the notebook. It contained only a few lines and dots, a few scribbles, like the abstract drawings of a toddler. Now Rodrigues wants to imagine the unwritten pages of his father's final work. By mixing memories, songs, or fragments of his father's writings, Rodrigues builds a performance that wishes to be a small victory over death . Na Miet Warlop, Angélica Liddell, Tim Etchells, Faustin Linyekula and Milo Rau, Tiago Rodrigues is the latest celebrated director invited by NTGent to participate in the prestigious Histoire(s) du Théâtre series. In his performance, every scene is a playful variation on the theme of saying goodbye. The stage forms a surreal landscape where hospital beds glide over an icy sea, as a metaphor for the tumult of life. With music and poetry as the grammar of a theater that finds reasons for joy even in the saddest stories.