Tag: Theater
“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…
Aix-en-Provence Festival: “The Threepenny Opera”, a hymn to bandits and London slums
Opening and ending one of the biggest operatic events in the world with a parody is the bet of the 75th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. The Threepenny Opera, a…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
RFI Theater Prize 2023: the twelve shortlisted texts of the 10th edition
French-speaking authors are always there with a large number of texts sent following the spring call for applications. 135 texts from 25 countries were submitted to the reading committee with…