The 76th edition of the Avignon festival opens this Thursday, July 7. Le Off, the largest theater market in Europe with 1,570 shows. The In, with a program of around forty shows, opens in the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes with the Russian artist Kirill Serebrinnokov, the most popular in France at the moment. He adapts a little-known short story by Chekhov: The Black Monk. Olivier Py signs his last edition before handing over to the Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues.