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“I’ve only tried to make the play that my mother would have liked to see and a pair of poor hands have stitched the shroud with which I will see her in heaven”.

Angélica Liddell

Poetic, physical and visceral. This is Angélica Liddell’s theatre, one of the most irreverent and unclassifiable creators today and one of the most famous internationally. She returns to the Autumn Festival to present her new montage: a réquiem to her mother who died in 2018. A theatrical speech, an explosion of guilt and atonement where Liddell expresses her love and at the same time, all her pain, converting the sublime into suffering. Accompanied by the musician Niño de Elche. A show that will leave none indifferent.

In the words of Angélica Liddell: “These funerals for my mother contain all those sighs and in their most wrenching expression constitute a saga of the search for the country of my ancestors: Extremadura, the heart, the land as womb, the mother that must be returned to its entrails, newborn thanks to disease and madness. A profound and painful exploration where death transforms hate into love and mercy wells over. A ritual, that of the “Empalaos” of Valverde de la Vera, that traces the seismic and tragic roots of mourning, a road to atonement through a ravaged heart. A dead mother that calls to me every night, as a child, to go with her. I’ve only tried to make the play that my mother would have liked to see and a pair of poor hands have stitched the shroud with which I will see her in heaven.”

A rib on the table: Mother premiered on 27 March 2019 at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in Switzerland.

Practical information

• Teatros del Canal Sala Roja
• 17 and 18 November at 20:30

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What the critics have said...

• “The director’s new creation is an act of faith and at the same time, a challenge”. Aïnhoa Jean-Calmettes i Jean-Roch de Logivière, Mouvement
• “To attend one of Angélica Liddell’s shows is an experience. It may not always be pleasant but it is always powerful. There are wrenching, horrible, sublime, surprising, disagreeable, dark and radiant moments. There is madness and aggravation, a true attempt at authenticity, an extreme Iberian passion and the search for a universal truth. Above all, there is a deeply sincere artist”. Martine Fehlbaum, Inferno
• “Of a vocal intensity that would make Jericho tremble, revealing scenes with a spectral beauty and orchestrating frightened complaints where the fantastic singer Niño de Elche participates, Angélica Liddell doesn’t just pursue originality, she also makes with her body a sacrificial tribute to a ‘land before God was love’. Not everybody will want to enter this funeral chapel of changes, uncertainties, gobs of darkness, and all expressions of blistering hate, imprecations and anathema are unreservedly exultant. But what a joy to see the rest recognise this need to feel the heartbeats of existence, whatever may be the price”. Boris Sen, 24 heures
• “Angélica Liddell is one of the most provocative artists on stage today. You never leave one of her shows unaffected, which are unique experiences simultaneously poetic and physical, where the action, necessary and liberating, transcends the narrative. Her theatre of compassion and shared suffering arouses a plain, brutal and implacable speech. [...] This Spanish artist is a radical mystic, a modern penitent of humanity’s contradictions”. Guillaume Lasserre, Mediapart