Dämon – El funeral de Bergman

Angélica Liddell
28/11/2025 29/11/2025
  • Duur: 2h
  • Location : Salle de la Grande Main
  • Languages: in Spanish, French, Swedish, with French surtitles

Not recommended for audiences under 16 years old (some scenes may be disturbing)

Performance created on June 29, 2024 at the Festival d’Avignon

According to legend, Ingmar Bergman conceived the idea of organizing his own funeral after attending the grandiose funeral ceremony of Pope John Paul II.
Obsessed with theater and a perfectionist in every detail, he is said to have planned everything: from the music to the location, from the coffin to the decorations, making his final journey his ultimate work of art.

Inspired by this extraordinary figure, Angélica Liddell takes the Swedish filmmaker at his word and transforms the stage into a funeral oration celebrating his departed soul.
True to her intense, radical, and irreverent style, the performer and director inhabits the stage like no other, delving into profound reflections on death, art, solitude, and the painful relationship between artists and critics.
Like a macabre dance, she invites us to dance with her demons and obsessions to exorcise them and to reclaim the theater as the ultimate space of catharsis.

Presented as the opening performance of the 78th edition of the Festival d’Avignon, on its most prestigious stage, Dämon is an absolutely unique theatrical experience, where dismay transforms into a formidable creative force.
Bergman’s funeral? Perhaps… But certainly not the funeral of theater!

Calendar

Date Hour
Friday, November 28 7:00 pm Book
Saturday, November 29 6:00 pm

Tarifs

  • Plein tarif 31 €
  • 65ans+/Carte prof/Groupe10+ 26 €
  • -30ans/Pro/Dem.d'emploi 13 €
  • Groupe scolaire 8 €
  • -15ans 7 €
  • Etudiants Conservatoires Art de la parole 5 €
Book

Distributions

With
Ahimsa, Yuri Ananiev, Nicolas Chevallier, Guillaume Costanza, Electra Hallman, Elin Klinga, Angélica Liddell, Ugo Giacomazzi, Tina Pour-Davoy, Sindo Puche, Daniel Richard, Nemanja Stojanovic, and extras

Special participation
Erika Hagberg (dresser from the Dramaten), David Abad (Multicapacitats)

Text, direction, set design, costumes Angélica Liddell
Voice Jonas Bergström
Lighting Mark Van Denesse
Sound Antonio Navarro
Assistant director Sindo Puche
Translation and surtitles Christilla Vasserot

Production Atra Bilis / Iaquinandi SL
Co-production Festival d’Avignon, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Teatros del Canal Madrid, Théâtre de Liège, Royal Dramatic Theatre Dramaten / Stockholm, Grec – Festival of Barcelona
International co-production Prospero – Extended Theatre*

Thanks to The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Multicapacitats

* Prospero – Extended Theatre is a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

 

 

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