2023-06-14 00:09:17
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Forced to deprogram “the Emigrants”, the director of the Festival d’Avignon has decided to program himself this summer. A choice that is difficult to pass in an environment where the works struggle to exist over time.
We waited impatiently to find out which show would replace the Emigrants, the unfinished creation by Krystian Lupa programmed at the Avignon Opera and which the festival management was forced to cancel. Last week, the director of the festival, Tiago Rodrigues, assured us that he and his team would ensure that the substitute show would not be affected by the particular conditions of his exhibition and might not be compared to that of the master Polish octogenarian.
It was hoped that a young company would come out of the hat or at least a show with young actors. And everyone to improvise programmer, to make plans on the comet, to dream of choices all more judicious than the others. Wasted effort. The name of the show has dropped. It is an understatement to say that it surprises. It is therefore himself that Tiago Rodrigues has chosen as substitute director with a work produced by the Comédie de Genève, the very one which, by withdrawing from the production of Emigrants, might not or did not want to save the conditions of s
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