Le Moche Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 24/07/2019 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...
Burnout Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 24/07/2019 Before entering the Gilgamesh Belleville, I was very much looking forward to discovering this very current play written by Alexandra Badea: Burnout. It deals with the gradual descent into hell of a dynamic youn...
Lewis versus Alice Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 23/07/2019 This year, at the Avignon ‘In’ festival, a show with a curious name is presented: it is called Lewis versus Alice. Macha Makeïeff, the director of the Marseille National Theater La Criée, presents a show inspir...
Autobiography Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 23/07/2019 This summer, for his first time in Avignon, British choreographer Wayne McGregor presents his Autobiography in the beautiful Cour du Lycée Saint-Joseph. If you know Wayne McGregor, you can expect that it is not...
La Solitude du Coureur de Fond Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 23/07/2019 When you go to see a play that is called La Solitude du Coureur de Fond (The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner), the first thing you would expect to see is a bit of running. Patrick Mons' directing and per...
Rémi Prin en conversation avec Thibault ElieLe Festival d’Avignon Thibault Elie 21/07/2019 For English translation of the interview - see below Après la critique enthousiaste d'Emilie Dumesny de la pièce Solaris, découvrez un entretien avec le jeune metteur en scène Rémi Prin. Célèbre roman de Sta...
Solaris Le Festival d’Avignon Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/07/2019 It is quite rare to see works of science-fiction adapted to the stage these days: it is not considered as a noble genre, and the development of large budget science-fiction films encouraged the use of spectacul...
La Dernière Bande (Krapp’s Last Tape) Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 18/07/2019 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...
Seasonal Affective Disorder Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 17/07/2019 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...
La Maison de Thé (Teahouse) Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 17/07/2019 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...
