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Tiago Rodrigues: By Heart

Oct 28 — 29, 2025
Performance
Seven people sit on-stage against a brick backdrop, with one person holding a book up that reads Candida.
Tiago Rodrigues, By Heart. Photo: Christophe Raynaud de Lage. Courtesy the artist.

Tickets & Info

Tickets & Info

When Oct 28 — 29, 2025
Where McGuire Theater
Price Tickets start at $25

“Miraculous … a communal act of translation.” —New York Times (Critic’s Pick)

Tiago Rodrigues begins By Heart with an assurance that everything will be “calm and normal.” What he omits is just how un-normal “normal” can be. The acclaimed Portuguese playwright proceeds to invite 10 volunteer audience collaborators on stage to learn a sonnet live, while weaving in personal stories and literary references. Inspired by his grandmother who must increasingly rely on memory as her vision deteriorates, the artist engages memory as a tool of resistance. In a time when key words and ideas are being scrubbed from the record, Rodrigues reminds us that it is we who are the keepers.

Accessibility, Sensory, and Content Notes

Sensory note: This performance contains voluntary audience participation.

For more information about accessibility, visit our Access page.

For questions on accessibility or to request additional accommodations, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.

Program support provided by AJT Fund; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; and Theatre & New Forms, a program of Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation.

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