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FRIDAY 25 AND SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2026, 9:30 PM
La Distance
Ages 12 and up
Event
2077. As humanity struggles to survive amid economic hardship and the consequences of climate change, part of the population lives in exile on Mars. Back on Earth, a father strives to maintain a relationship with his daughter, who has left for the Red Planet.
"La Distance" is an intimate story set against the vastness of the cosmos. Through this dystopian—yet far from improbable—setting, Tiago Rodrigues explores both the consequences of our choices and the possibility of communication across generations. He places two worlds face to face, imagining their dialogue in orbit as a series of very, very, very long-distance calls.
For this production, he is joined by actors Adama Diop and Alison Dechamps, who perform within a rotating interplanetary device, like two celestial bodies bound to their respective orbits, at times drawing closer, at times drifting apart.
*Performance in French with Portuguese subtitles accessible to deaf or hard-of-hearing people.
Text and direction: Tiago Rodrigues
With: Alison Dechamps, Adama Diop
Translation: Thomas Resendes
Set design: Fernando Ribeiro
Costumes: José António Tenente
Lighting design: Rui Monteiro
Music: Pedro Costa
Artistic collaboration: Sophie Bricaire
Assistant director: André Pato
Production: Festival d’Avignon
Co-production: Teatro stabile di Napoli Teatro Nazionale (Naples), Onassis Stegi (Athens), La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale, Divadlo International Theatre Festival (Plzeň), Le Volcan Scène nationale du Havre, Teatre Lliure (Barcelona), Centro Dramatico Nacional (Madrid), Malakoff Scène nationale Théâtre 71, Culturgest (Lisbon), De Singel (Antwerp), Équinoxe Scène nationale de Châteauroux, Points communs Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d’Europa (Milan), Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg Scène européenne, NTCH Taiwan National Theatre and Concert Hall, Les Célestins Théâtre de Lyon, Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune (Aix-en-Provence), Théâtre de Grasse Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art & Création, Scènes et Cinés Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art en territoire (Istres), Le Bateau Feu Scène nationale de Dunkerque, Plovdiv Drama Theatro, Malta Festival (Poznań), Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen)
With the support of the integration programme of the École du TNB – Théâtre national de Bretagne (Rennes)
Set construction: Ateliers du Festival d’Avignon
Residency: La FabricA, Festival d’Avignon
Residency: La FabricA, Festival d’Avignon
Thanks to: Marie Azevedo, PhD candidate in planetary sciences at the University of Bern and member of the CaSSIS team for the ExoMars mission, Magda Bizarro, Beatriz Rodrigues, the teams at Festival d’Avignon, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris)
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Running time: 90 mins