Tiago Rodrigues: memory, melancholy, and learning stories by heart

• Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Rui Pina
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/62473
• topic: Tiago Rodrigues; Portuguese theatre

Tiago Rodrigues, born in 1977, is today probably the most widely acknowledged Portuguese theatre artist. From 2003 to December 2014, Rodrigues co-directed, with Magda Bizarro, the independent theatre company Mundo Perfeito (Perfect world). Trained as an actor in Lisbon, Rodrigues soon became close to those who were reinventing the theatrical fabric, either in Portugal, such as the decentred practice of Jorge Silva Melo with Artistas Unidos, or in Europe, such as tg STAN (Stop Thinking About Names), a highly influential Belgian troupe within Portuguese theatre in the late nineties and early noughts, with whom Rodrigues has co-created and performed several times. From an actor who wrote and often played his own texts, he gradually began to establish himself also as a playwright and stage director. He is currently the Director of the Avignon Festival.