REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents NÔT By Marlene Monteiro Freitas
This past week, I found myself explaining the concept of “commit to the bit” to a friend in Paris.
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REVIEW: The Festival d’Avignon Presents WHEN I SAW THE SEA By Ali Chahrour
The news can inform us.
Review: L'Espace la Risée Presents WINE AND HALVA By Deniz Başar
This past spring L’Espace la Risée cabaret at the Rue Bélanger in Montreal welcomed a full-length drama, Deniz Başar’s Wine and Halva.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents THE LINE IS A CURVE By Kae Tempest
The 76th Festival d'Avignon officially concluded last night with Kae Tempest's The Line is a Curve at the Cour d'Honneur.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents SILENT LEGACY By Maud Le Pladec and Jr Maddripp
Silent Legacy, now in performance at the Festival d'Avignon's Cloître des Cèlestins, asks questions about points of exchange.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UNA IMAGEN INTERIOR By El Conde de Torrefiel
The text of Una Imagen Interior, a production by Spanish company El Conde De Torrefiel now in performance at Vedène's Autre Scène du Grand Avignon, is relegated to a bilingual surtitle board.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents TUMULUS By François Chaignaud and Geoffroy Jourdain
People often describe the imagination of a child as one of wonder or sweet innocence.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents FLESH By Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola
Most times in Avignon, when a work is called something ominous like Blood, Bones, or, as is the case for Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola's new work, Flesh, the worst is to be expected.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE SACRIFICE By Dada Masilo
Choreographer Dada Masilo, a South African native, studied dance at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's school in Brussels.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents DU TEMPS OÙ MA MÈRE RACONTAIT By Ali Chahrour
One of the most famous images of 20th century theatre is that of Brecht's Mother Courage who, when told she needs to remain incognito when her son is shot, offers a silent scream.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents RICHARD II By Christophe Rauck
According to a poll taken in 2016, a little more than half of all British people have seen or read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE SEPTIÈME JOUR By Meng Jinghui
Eulogies, obituaries, and post-mortems.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents JOGGING By Hanane Hajj Ali
Hanane Hajj Ali considers a lot when she jogs through her home city of Beirut.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents FUTUR PROCHE By Jan Martens
Seated in the middle of a meters long bench in Avignon's Cour d'Honneur, Goska Isphording whirls through compositions on the harpsichord in front of her.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LA TEMPESTA By Alessandro Serra
The classic elements to create an effective magical illusion are smoke and mirrors.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MA JEUNESSE EXALTEE By Olivier Py
If this Avignon season's other marathon project, the 13-hour Nid de Cendres, calls to mind a jewel box, Ma Jeunesse Exaltée calls to mind bathroom stall graffiti.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents IPHIGENIE By ANNE THERON
'Who's in charge here?' seems to be the question ringing though Anne Théron's powerful production of Tiago Rodrigues's Iphigénie, currently residing in Avignon's beautifully restored opera house.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents DANS CE JARDIN QU'ON AIMAIT By MARIE VIALLE
It is clear that Marie Vialle finds the story of Simon Pease Cheney compelling.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MILK By BASHAR MURKUS
In Avignon's 'other theatre', a purpose built space some miles out of the city center, Bashar Murkus presents his new dance theatre piece Milk.
Review: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE NID DE CENDRES By SIMON FALGUIÈRES
While describing the marginalization of theatre artists in early Christian society my theatre history professor once said, 'It must be a kind of witchcraft or at least magic.
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