Some festivals go out with a whimper. Once the excitement of the opening production in the Cour d'Honneur has passed, the remaining artists often present more modest, less foregrounded projects. There are concerts, readings, and other events, and it remains a vibrant hub of activity, but it is never…
Boris Charmatz dances with discomfort. His work Muette, now in performance at the Festival d'Avignon's La Chartreuse, offers no easy viewing. Earthy movement, prolonged silence, and nudity combine in an unsettling yet riveting exploration of the body. Charmatz seeks to dance the interior self, a sel…
What better way to close out the Festival d'Avignon than with a love letter to the theatre? At the conclusion of Casting Lear, now performing at the Opéra Grand Avignon as part of the Festival, creator and performer André Jiménez makes an impassioned case for the art form. …
In Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura's Un Procès Après l'Ennemi du Peuple, now performing at the Festival d'Avignon's Gymnase du Lycée Aubanel, Thomas Stockmann finally gets his day in court. Reimagining the events of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in contemporary Brazil, the production transfor…
With its generous public funding for culture, France's Festival d'Avignon can produce theatrical spectacles on an extraordinary scale. Its directors regularly push the formal limits of the art form with enormous casts, technological innovation, and elaborate stagecraft. …
In his podcast, political commentator Ezra Klein has examined a curious conundrum within the modern elite: the pursuit of extraordinary qualities divorced from their original purpose. Looksmaxers have become sterile in their pursuit of superhuman beauty. …
In a BBC interview, famed director Katie Mitchell calls for fewer productions of Hamlet. She is tired of attending plays about “misogynistic, angry, depressed men.” I respect any artist defining the boundaries of what interests them. …
Across the Rhône from Avignon, in the picturesque town of Villeneuve, sits Villeneuve en Scène. The site, usually associated with the Festival “Off,” contains food trucks, a bar, picnic areas, and small courts where locals play rounds of boules. Toward the back of the festival grounds stands a…
Some performances in Avignon require me to put on my Euro-goggles. Sometimes the adjustment is one of taste: comedy, for instance, varies dramatically between American and continental European sensibilities. Other times, it is a matter of social vocabulary. Race functions very differently in America…
Molière is a surprising figure to hold such a central position in French culture. The image of France as sophisticated, understated, and elite extends only partially to his oeuvre. In practice, Molière’s theatre appropriated and elevated the popular Italian tradition of commedia dell’arte.…
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For some years now, the twentieth Theatre became the point of reference for the creation of musical performances. That is why, at the end of the season, we will offer young musical troops the opportunity to express themselves on our shelf. We don't know yet if we will propose...
Respecting the Elizabethan theatre, where all roles were held by men, love without limits of Romeo and Juliet is played behind the scenes of a theatre. A nu theatre where the dressing rooms as well as the machinery are visible to the public. The spotlight based on a rock concert...
It was once a factory. A location mechanical, automatic plastic. It follows the disappointments of a dozen workers monitored by a Director whose power him up a little too much head. Days are similar, an air of "bike, boulot, dodo" and work the chain rubbed off dangerously on the...
On the stage, turned into a film studio, takes place the fake shooting a film on the Cathars, the Crusades, troubadours. Special effects (tricks, live video overlays) multiply in this wacky version ofHellzapoppin, of the siege of Carcassonne in 1209. But the show also suggests...
A history of travel? A history of dreams? A history of gods? And if the Odyssey was finally a story told by a woman, Penelope: that of a hero who must agree to be a man. The myth of Odysseus is here transposed in the comedy, glamour and glitter of the burlesque cabaret world...
There was once a world... where men feared the beast and despised the Nature, where old women had a character wise but obscure, where children were careless but meek, and where the Bzous were bloodthirsty monsters. A dreamlike and horror of the well-known tale of little Red...
While "Chez Sistine", flagship of the gastronomy weakened by globalization, preparing feverishly "Trophy Marmiton" an investment fund conspires to seize the capital of the House. In the kitchen, the orders come, dishes simmer, whips and pans revved. The Chef and his brigade will...
Today, we communicate continuously: cell phone, internet, text messages, e-mails, chat... but is that we communicate better so far? Six characters in search of love meet, to seduce, love, hate, to find, leave in a round that is wrong. A look at ironic and without complacency on...
And if one of the greatest American writers, father of Huckelberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, still existed? When Sam meets his grandfather for the first time in a psychiatric hospital, he is seduced by a jolly old man who is taken to Mark Twain and who tells funny stories. Twainheart...
A couple that loves more, a young woman in acid, and deadliest, Micheline, a mythomaniac travelo and Ahmed, a young ephebe, spend the evening on the thirteenth floor of a tower defence... Farce, drama, surreal culinary experiences, infanticide and unbridled sexuality!
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MINOTAURE OU LE LABYRINTHE DE GLACE ORANGERIE DU PARC DE BAGATELLE (8/15-8/30) |
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LE TEMPS DE VIVRE TH DU ROND POINT - SALLE ROLAND TOPOR (6/09-6/13) |
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ORLANDO TH DU ROND POINT -SALLE JEAN TARDIEU (1/27-1/30) |
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DE VICTOR À HUGO LE MONTORGUEIL - SCENE DES HALLES (5/08-9/08) |
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X ELLES THEATRE DES MATHURINS (9/21-11/16) |
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BOLLYWOOD MASALA CASINO DE PARIS (3/11-3/14) |
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YASSIR THEATRE BO SAINT-MARTIN (9/12-12/05) |
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LE FANTOME DE L''OPERA RADIANT - BELLEVUE (1/28-1/28) |
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URGANT LIVE CASINO DE PARIS (10/25-10/25) |
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LE FILIP THEATRE 100 NOMS (12/09-12/09) |
