Princeton French Theater Festival - Avignon Project 2025

Seuls en Scène 2024 presents Avignon Project 2025 featuring Tiago Rodrigues & Adama Diop

Exclusively for Seuls en Scène 2024, Tiago Rodrigues, current director of Festival d’Avignon, and French-Senegalese actor Adama Diop invite you into their laboratory and discuss their upcoming new creation for Festival d’Avignon 2025.

About the Guests:

Portuguese actor Tiago Rodrigues crossed paths with the Belgian company Tg Stan at the age of twenty. There he developed his acting, his writing for the theatre, and his taste for the collective. As an author and director, he founded the company Mundo Perfeito with Magda Bizarro in 2003 before becoming director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon from 2015 to 2021. Combining true stories and fiction and weaving together the intimate and the political, Tiago Rodrigues’s shows are deeply influenced by the idea of writing with and for the actors, and by his quest for a transformation of our conscience through the tools of theatre. His goal? To bring us together to question our world thanks to the power of the words, of the bodies, and of the imagination of the spectators. He currently serves as director of the Festival d’Avignon, an institution he knows well, having presented several shows here, including Antony and Cleopatra in 2015, Sopro in 2017, The Cherry Orchard in 2021, By heart and Dans la mesure de l’impossible in 2023, and Hécube pas Hécube in 2024.

Born in Senegal in 1981, in a middle-class family, Adama Diop discovered theater in high school. Upon his arrival in France, he began training in the dramatic arts, first at the Conservatoire de Montpellier, then at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique, in Paris. He then began to meet and experience a series of people very early on, confronting both the classical repertoire and contemporary creation. Diop plays Molière, William Shakespeare, Marivaux and Bertold Brecht as well as Bernard Koltès, Roberto Bolano or Marie N’Diaye, under the direction of great names such as Frank Castorf, Stéphane Braunschweig, Tiago Rodrigues or Arthur Nauzyciel. He has also been seen several times on stage in original creations, under the direction of Marion Aubert (Les ​​aventures de Nathalie Nicole Nicole, Saga des habitants du val de Moldavie) or Julien Gosselin (Joueurs, Mao II, Les Noms ).

The conversation will be in French. Duration: 60 minutes.

Location: Rocky/Mathey Theater, Rockefeller College

The conversation is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.