ROBERT WILSON

Pressoa - Since I’ve been me

  • Fernando Pessoa’s poetry is a quest, a deep interrogation of language as existence. His inventiveness famously expressed itself as the cultivation and release of the multiple selves waiting for him in his head. They were not pseudonyms. They were him but also not him. Pessoa called them heteronyms. They were his allies in a great adventure, the search for the liberated voice of poetry. This production evokes the various atmospheres of Pessoa’s works, the fluidity of mood, whether meditative or comic, rational or anarchic, that rose from a life shared with heteronymic personalities such as Alexander Search or Bernardo Soares or Vicente Guedes or Alberto Caeiro or Alvaro de Campos or Ricardo Reis. Wilson’s freedom of image is an equivalent to these cheerful and grave skeptics of the metaphysical. He presents Pessoa and his coterie as escapists from traditional philosophical concepts. Wilson is as alive as Pessoa to the reality of dreams and the unreliability of the concrete. Emotions and sensations are mysteries. The strengths of Pessoa’s poetic imagination are in his will to write and to go on writing against doubt and in his extraordinary ability to do so in one language after another. To capture the essence of the human soul’s relation to the physical world is a music of inquiry.

DATES

Florence Teatro della Pergola May 4 – 12, 2024

Paris Théâtre de la Ville November 5 – 16, 2024

Trento Teatro Sociale February 6 – 9 , 2025

Trieste Politeama Rossetti February 13 – 16, 2025

Lisbon Teatro São Luz March 6 – 8, 2025

Luxembourg Grand Théâtre January 9 – 10, 2026

Paris Théâtre de la Ville June 13 – 21, 2026

  • Direction, set and lighting design Robert Wilson

    Texts Fernando Pessoa

    Dramaturgy Darryl Pinckney

    Costumes Jacques Reynaud

    With Maria de Medeiros, Aline Belibi, Rodrigo Ferreira, Klaus Martini, Sofia Menci, Gianfranco

    Poddighe, Janaína Suaudeau

    Co-director Charles Chemin

    Associate set designer Annick Lavallée-Benny

    Associate light designer Marcello Lumaca

    Sound design and music supervisor Nick Sagar

    Make up Véronique Pfluger

    Stage manager Thaiz Bozano

    Technical director Enrico Maso

    Collaboration to costumes design Flavia Ruggeri

    Literary consultant Bernardo Haumont

    Personal assistant to Robert Wilson Liam Krumstroh

    Commissioned and produced by Teatro della Pergola Firenze & Théâtre de la Ville Parigi

    Coproduced by Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, São Luiz

    Teatro Municipal de Lisboa, Festival d’Automne à Paris

    In collaboration with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

    Photography © Lucie Jansch

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