Tag: Avignon 2023
Eric Delphin-Kwegoué (Cameroon): “LeZ-Zanimal” – It’s okay, everyone
A homecoming architect with grand plans, a money-obsessed billionaire, a witchy naturopath, and ambitious kids. A fable about the harshness of contemporary life, greed and wild dreams of a new…
Pierrette Mondako (Congo-Brazzaville): “A moment of brilliance”
A new wind is blowing in city B, like a burst of joy… Part of the population, after a devastating disaster, was compensated to the tune of several million CFA…
Djo Ngeleka (Democratic Republic of Congo): “The Lake”
It’s morning, it looks like six o’clock, a crowd is claiming that a body has fallen into a lake, or what everyone has decided to call “lake” because there is…
“Mothers, A Song of Wartime”, a work based on testimonies of Ukrainian exiles in Avignon
At the end of the Avignon festival, Ukrainian refugees are on the front of the stage with a reading of Mothers, A Song of Wartime, in French “Mothers, song of…
Avignon Festival: migration issues on trial
Patricia Allio wants to be attentive to minorities and focuses her work on a critical thought of the world. In “Dispak Dispac’h”, she sets up an agora in which the…
Julie Deliquet, “words to save their lives”
With her radical staging, Julie Deliquet caught many people off guard. With “Welfare”, she installs the gloom of a social center in the sacred place of the theatre, the Cour…
The director Julie Deliquet in a word, a gesture and a silence
She is the second woman invited for a staging in the main courtyard of the Palais des Papes at the Festival d’Avignon, which blows out its 77 candles. Born in…
Dieudonné Niangouna: “I dance with a broken history and an upright heart”
As part of the Off program at the Avignon Festival, Dieudonné Niangouna, Congolese author, director and actor, and who notably founded another theater festival (Mantsina Sur Scène in Brazzaville), presents…
Émilie Monnet and Joëlle Sambi, fire and the fight for justice and memory
Welcome to Avignon, which is hosting the great annual live performance festival for the 77th time. RFI, partner of the festival, has set up its studio there and all week…