Emmanuelle Riva will return to the stage in Marguerite Duras play

Emmanuelle Riva, who received a best actress Oscar nomination earlier this year for her role as an ailing octogenarian in Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” is set to return to the stage for the first time in more than a decade in a new production of Marguerite Duras’ play “Savannah Bay.”

The French-language production is scheduled to open in Paris in February at the Théâtre de l’Atelier and will come to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the following month as part of an international theater festival.

“Savannah Bay” tells the story of a young woman’s search for the truth about her mother’s death through a long conversation with an elderly woman, during which memory mingles with fiction. Riva will play the elderly woman alongside French actress Anne Consigny.

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The production is scheduled to run at the Théâtre de l’Atelier in Paris in February before traveling to the Kennedy Center, where it is set to run for four performances from March 19-22. At the Kennedy Center, the production, which will be part of the World Stages festival, will be performed in French with English supertitles.

Riva, 86, has had a long history with the works of Duras. Her first major screen role was in the 1959 film “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” which was written by Duras and directed by Alain Resnais.

The Oscar nominee’s last major stage appearance was in a production of “Medea” with Isabelle Huppert, which ran at the prestigious Festival d’Avignon in 2000.

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