Le Festival d'Avignon

In Paris in 1640, the brilliant poet and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac finds himself in love of his beautiful cousin Roxane. Despite his courage and the admiration aroused everywhere he goes, he refuses to decla...

I thank the woman who gave me a leaflet for this contemporary dance performance. Thanks to this encounter typical of Avignon, I saw a very touching show. This performance includes in reality two different ones ...

Liam, a young man aged 20 years, covered in blood, enters his sister’s apartment while she is having an intimate dinner with her husband. He tries to give a coherent explanation to the couple, but he slips deep...

When you enter in the performance hall, what strikes you first is the huge unfinished painting in the centre of the stage. In 1855, Gustave Courbet works on The Painter’s Studio (a real allegory summing up s...

According to its writer, director, and performer Myriam Saduis, Final Cut should not be called a show, and not even a performance. Instead, she suggests to describe it as something ‘unstable, between a historic...

When you enter the performance hall of the Gilgamesh Belleville, you are welcomed by the organiser of the wedding: "Come on, ladies and gentlemen, sit down please, the ceremony is about to begin." He immediatel...

Tommy Milliot, the young French director and founder of the Man Haast company, is particularly interested in directing plays by contemporary authors. La Brèche (The MacAlpine Spillway), which he presented this ...

At the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des papes, Akram Khan presents a great choreography directly inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, an old founding epic poem. In an oneiric and disturbing way, he sets a violent...

One day, Lette’s life turns upside down. This brilliant engineer learns that he is...ugly. Because of this “objective ugliness” upon which his entourage agree, his boss decides that he will not present in a con...