Festivals

This year, at the Avignon ‘Off’ festival, Jacques Osinski’s take on La Dernière Bande provokes a particular excitement. When I enter the Théâtre des Halles, a small crowd is already there. Most of us are glad t...

When I first read about Seasonal Affective Disorder and its Bonnie and Clyde-esque story, I was curious to see how this tale of lovers on the run was going to be staged. I was somewhat taken aback, then, when I...

One of the highlights of this year’s “In” edition of the Avignon Festival is avant-garde director Meng Jinghui’s adaptation of The Teahouse, a major Chinese work written by Lao She and published a few years bef...

The Lingering Now is one of the most promising plays that you could hope for in the “In” Festival d’Avignon: it is described as firmly politically engaged and a new form of hybrid between theatre and cinema. Br...

The “Off” Festival in Avignon is a place where you can find little plays from all around the world offering unique attempts to create something new. I got into “The Humanzee” because the actors were promoting t...