Marthe Koning does Fernando Pessoa’s poems in What Pessoa taught me.
With her voice and body, she interprets his poems. Ranging from unrecognizable growls to a classic recitation. The audience determines the order and the improvisation that goes with it sets the course. She never knows where she starts and where we my all end up. Plurality of identity is her great motivation. The heteronyms from which Pessoa wrote give her a voice. His philosophy brings them to life by bringing to the fore the boundlessness within.
Together with her sisters, she forms the interdisciplinary performance collective King Sisters with whom they made Song of the Sisters (Best of Fringe Award 2018), Talking Songs (2020) and Rebuilding a Voice (2022).
Shared Practices: a residency in collaboration with Corso, detheatermaker, MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, Monty and Rataplan. With support from the Flemish Government and City of Antwerp
