The 76th Festival d’Avignon opened this Thursday, July 6, 2022. A program always very rich with around forty shows in the “In” Festival, and no less than 1,570 shows in the “Off”. A theatrical event that brings together a diversity of writings, interpretations from all walks of life and an unparalleled diversity of audiences.
The first two guests of this 1st VMDN broadcast at the Festival d’Avignon are:
- Elise Vigier which stages ” Anaïs Nin in the mirror from a text by Agnès Desarthe to be applauded at the Benoît XII theater until July 16 as part of the Festival In d’Avignon. A plural and feminist portrait of the Franco-American writer who turns out to be an incredible theater character.
Guy Giroux staged ” Tales under the baobab with actors and musicians from the Marbayassa company from Burkina Faso. A play for all audiences, young and old, presented as part of the Festival OFF, to be seen at the Le Tremplin theater – Salle les Baladins until July 30.
Reportage : Iphigenia, this young girl sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to obtain a favorable wind for his fleet. Euripides has already delivered his version of the myth, Racine too, this time it is the turn of Tiago Rodrigues, the future director of the IN d’Avignon festival, in a staging by Anne Théron. Fanny Bleichner saw the room for us.