A group of people sitting in a semi-circle on a stage. The group is mixed gender and a mixed age range, wearing casual clothes. The group who are sitting down are audience participants in the show. There is also a male presenting person standing on the stage. The standing figure is Tiago, the artist who created the show and invited the audience participants on stage.

By Heart

Name: By Heart
Start: 2025-10-14T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-15T21:15:00+01:00

Date

Tue 14 - Wed 15 Oct 2025

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In a world where most of us memorise nothing more poetic than passwords and pin numbers, what is the value of a show built around 10 people learning a Shakespeare sonnet by heart?

For the past ten years, director of Festival d’Avignon, Tiago Rodrigues, has presented By Heart – a heartrending show, the result of a request from his grandmother as she was going blind.

Combining Shakespeare’s sonnet and the writings of George Steiner, Boris Pasternak and Ray Bradbury, the performance makes its UK premiere as a true manifesto for the power of poetry through the creation of a