As Portuguese director Thiago Rodriguez opens his first Avignon Festival on Wednesday 5 July, how do you choose among the 40 proposals for In? Most of the forces from outside are unknown to us, we instinctively tend to turn towards famous, if not famous, authors or actors. Only for his 77thH Of course, the festival does not host the slightest star, does not present any great scripts from the theatrical repertoire or performances for the general public, such as Bartaba or Arian Mnouchkin. Only stars in: The Directors. Which these days do not tend to show plays, but quotes from novels or texts resulting from the improvisations carried out by its actors. So, by building on their previous offerings, we’ve picked a few creations. But beware, these are not criticisms, and even less prophecies, success is not guaranteed. On your responsibilty …
Delicé, Pyle, Quinn…
Among the more intriguing displays, Spectacle Julie Delici who will open the festival on the Cour d’honneur in the Palais des Papes, “Welfare” (Court of Honor at the Palais des Papes, 10 p.m., July 5-14), adapted from an animated documentary film, filmed in 1973 by Frederick Wisemann in a care center health in New York. Recall that Julie Deliquet, director of the Girard Philippe Theater in Saint-Denis, has performed, among other things, three performances with the Comédie-Française troupe, “Vanya”, according to Chekhov (2016); “Fanny and Alexander,” according to Ingmar Bergman (2019); “Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, Armandy and the Others,” according to Molière (2022).
very talented manager, Pauline Bale, was recently appointed president of the Théâtre Public de Montreuil, to whom we owe the adaptation of “The Iliad” (2015) and “The Odyssey” (2016), by Homer, an adaptation of Leila Slimani’s novel “Sweet Song” (2019), as well as an excellent adaptation From the movie “Lost Illusions” by Balzac (2020), which won him the Grand Prix of the Critics Syndicate. We can’t wait to see her new show, “Ecrire sa vie,” inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf (Cloître des Carmes, 10 p.m., July 8-16).
Good news, this year will see, after a break of seven years, the reopening of one of the most magical venues of the festival, the Carrière de Boulbon located about fifteen kilometers from Avignon, inaugurated in 1985 by the unforgettable “Mahabharata”. Edited by Peter Brook. that it Philip CoisonAnd metteur en scene verse dans le theater d’images, qui s’empare cet été de la Carrière for his planter son « Jardin des delices », epopée inspirée par le celèbre triptyque de Jerome Bosch (Carriere de Boulbon, 21h30, du 6 or 18 July).
They are acclaimed all over Swiss Europe Milo Rao Sophocles’ “Antigone” is deported to the Amazon jungle, which has been devastated by big industrial funds. Performed in English, Portuguese, Flemish, French and Tucano (the language spoken in the Amazon region), It will be titled “Antigone in the Amazon” in French and English (L’Autre Scène du Grand Avignon – Vedène, 9:30 pm, July 16-24).
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