Angélica Liddell

You are my destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia)

Archive 2014

Theatre

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Text, directed, set and costume design by, Angélica Liddell
With Joele Anastasi, Ugo Giacomazzi, Fabián Augusto Gómez Bohórquez, Julian Isenia, Lola Jiménez, Andrea Lanciotti, Angélica Liddell, Antonio L. Pedraza, Borja López, Emilio Marchese, Antonio Pauletta, Isaac Torres, Roberto de Sarno, Antonio Veneziano
Ukrainian choir, Free Voice (Anatolii Landar, Oleksii Ievdokimov, Mykhailo Lytvynenko)
French translation, Christilla Vasserot
Italian translation , Marilena de Chiara
Lighting designer, Carlos Marquerie
Sound designer, Antonio Navarro
Lighting manager, Octavio Gómez
Technical manager, Marc Bartoló
Stage management Africa Rodríguez
Production and logistics, Mamen Adeva
Assistant to the director Julio Provencio
Production director, Gumersindo Puche

Executive producer Iaquinandi, S.L. // Production executive Prospero (Théâtre National de Bretagne – Rennes, Théâtre de Liège, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Göteborgs Stadsteater, World Theatre Festival Zagreb, Festival of Athens and Epidaurus) // A coproduction with Singel Internationale Kunstcampus ; Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées ; Comédie de Valence – Centre dramatique national Drôme-Ardèche ; Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe ; Festival d’Automne à Paris // In collaboration with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe ; Festival d’Automne à Paris // In collaboration with Festival de Otoño a Primavera de la Comunidad de Madrid // With support from the Comunidad de Madrid and Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte – INAEM // With thanks to Alex Rigola and Biennale di Venezia for making the meeting with the actors possible // The piece was first presented on the 26th September 2013 at the National Theatre, Croatia / World Theatre Festival Zagreb
In partnership with France Culture

In 2009, the Spanish director Angélica Liddell created La Maison de la Force with her company Atra Bilis, a piece in which six women uttered their pain, turning to the violence of relationships with another, when that other is a man. At the centre of the piece was Angélica Liddell’s enraged monologue, in which she evoked a trip to Venice, a city which, in her eyes, represented the epicenter of intimate and collective cruelty. Five years later, the Venice that Liddell returns is a brighter one, and it is there that she sets down this latest piece, entitled You are my destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia), described by her as a sort of “redemptive other side of La Maison de la force”. On the stage, her fellow actors from past shows, namely Lola Jiménez and Fabián Gómez, join actors and singers met in Venice. The piece takes a fresh look at the rape of Lucrece, as recounted by Tite-Live and Shakespeare. What the director brings to the stage is Lucrece’s rebellion against what history wanted to make of her: a woman who commits suicide in order to defend her virtue and safeguard her honour. The piece is neither political dogma, nor feminist manifesto. It is the story of a love which extends beyond death. “What I am interested in”, as Angélica Liddell explains, “is not the social order, but the disorder in terms of feelings. And understanding the relationship between desire and pain”.