“The question of a new world that comes to replace another was of particular interest to Tiago [Rodrigues].»
After opening the Festival d’Avignon, of which he is the next director from September 2022, Tiago Rodrigues moved his cherry orchard until February 20 on the stage of the Théâtre de l’Odéon, in Paris.
The latest play by Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov, which he himself describes as a “comedy”, is nonetheless a work about the end, death and farewells. In this drama imagined as a tragic comedy, two characters stand out in particular: Lioubov, the mother of the family – an aristocrat on the verge of ruin who refuses the loss of her estate – played by Isabelle Huppert and Lopakhine, a son of muzhik (term which designated in Russia, since the XVIIIth century, peasants of low social rank) wealthy, looking like an upstart, who seeks to buy the Cherry Orchard to make it a tourist resort. It is worn in Tiago Rodriges’ play by our guest, Adama Diop, in a striking and magnetic performance.
” Climb La Cerisaie today », affirms Tiago Rodrigues, it is « address the pains and hopes of a new world. It is watching us. »
Guest: the comedian Adama Diop, who plays the role of Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopakhine in this new adaptation by Anton Chekhov.