In her latest piece “Tandy”, which will see its World Premiere at Foreign Affairs, Spanish performer and director Angélica Liddell unfolds a love elegy with truly delusional features. It is based on Sherwood Anderson’s story “Tandy”, where a little girl adopts this name after hearing a prophecy of “Be Tandy!” The story is set in the dreariness of the American Mid-West, at the turn of the century. Tandy is a cipher for the general hopelessness of love. The drama is repeated on stage, the little girl is present, as is the stranger who gave her her name. A name which she identifies with to the point of delusion and which will become the embodiment of a veritable love sickness later on in her life. If what I think of as love is a disease, the artist asks, then what is love? Her answer is beyond the humane. Once more, Liddell’s cruel theatre deals with a female biography and asks what the text spoken over this young girl’s body will do to her, how it will inscribe itself into her biography and determine her life.

(Spectacle joué en espagnol surtitré anglais et allemand)