Lovers’ Chorus

An ode to loving relationships and companionship, this work is a profound love poem, featuring two actors who become one. From the creator of “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists”.

A couple in the middle of the night. “I can’t breathe,” she says. “She can’t breathe,” he repeats. They rush to the car and head to the hospital. The play of the Portuguese writer and director already grabs us from the very first phrases.

“Lovers’ Chorus” pulls us into the heart of the relationship between two people as they step on the threshold of a life-and-death experience. And from there, into the course of their shared life, a “together forever” that stands against time and corrosion.

Artistic director of the Festival d’Avignon and creator of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, which was presented at the Onassis Stegi last year, Tiago Rodrigues directs, in collaboration with Argyro Chioti, the actors Nikos Karathanos and Marisha Triantafyllidou. This is his debut theatrical work, his most autobiographical, which he began writing in 2006 and completed it in 2020. Now, for the first time in Greece, he stages the play himself as a spectacle and artistic event of arresting tenderness, intensity, humor, and profound emotion.