Tag: Avignon
Avignon Festival: “La Saga de Molière” a jubilant play that pays tribute to the theater
It is at the Théâtre des Carmes, one of the permanent venues in Avignon and a mainstay of the Off programme, that a joyous comedy takes place in the evening.…
Avignon Festival: “Shared landscapes”, a breath of fresh air in the countryside
The Festival d’Avignon invites the public for an afternoon in the countryside. shared landscapes, these are seven rooms in nature, between pine forests and vineyards in Pujaut, a few kilometers…
Avignon: “After the storm”, the jubilant dance of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker facing the apocalypse
“Imagining another future is an important act. World famous, the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker does not give up in the face of climate catastrophe. In her pieces, she…
Avignon Festival: “The Garden of Delights” by Philippe Quesne, magician poet
The Boulbon quarry, mythical place of the Festival d’Avignon, reopens after 8 years of closure to the delight of festival-goers. It is in this stone crater surrounded by pines and…
“The exhausted against the tired”: at the Avignon Festival, Julie Deliquet adapts “Welfare”
The 77th Festival d’Avignon invites the poorest to the stage of the Palais des Papes. Julie Deliquet opens the Festival with an adaptation of Frederick Wiseman’s film Welfare, in which…
Avignon Festival: Julie Deliquet stages “Welfare” and “a minute of silence for Nahel”
The audience’s applause sounded rather reserved, even reluctant, after this highly anticipated world premiere. For the inauguration, Wednesday evening July 5, Julie Deliquet did what she had announced. The second…
Avignon Festival: GROOVE with Bintou Dembélé
Opening today of the 77th Festival d’Avignon with new director Tiago Rodrigues. And for the first time, the official program of the festival opens in the street which is normally…
investigation opened after the placarding of posters grimacing Macron as Hitler in Avignon
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, dozens of billboards in the city of Avignon, in the south of France, were covered by posters showing President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf…
Tiago Rodrigues entrusts the opening of the Avignon Festival to Julie Deliquet and Bintou Dembélé
The new director of the Festival d’Avignon, the Portuguese Tiago Rodrigues, unveiled this Wednesday April 5 the 2023 edition which will take place from July 5 to 25. The program…
Avignon Festival: “The chewing of the dead”, the floor is for the deceased
It is in this mythical place that is La Chartreuse, that you can see the show “The mastication of the dead” by Patrick Kermann, author who killed himself in this…