2023-06-05 14:07:54
Festival d’Avignon
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After tumultuous rehearsals, the play by Polish Krystian Lupa was canceled in Switzerland, which is extremely rare. The director, the actors and the co-producers fight to maintain the performances in Avignon at all costs.
“Everything to live”: it is with this title that the management of the Comédie de Genève, supported by its guardianship and in the first place the Swiss municipality, announced in a press release on Friday June 2 that it was canceling rehearsals and performances. of the Emigrants, the highly anticipated next creation by Krystian Lupa, as narrated by WG Sebald. It should have been presented this month of June in Geneva before being one of the highlights of the Festival d’Avignon, the first edition directed by Tiago Rodrigues. “Everything to live”: and even the renunciation of continuing to work with the brilliant 79-year-old director, for whom this is perhaps the last play, admired throughout the world, celebrated and shown in France, in particular at the ‘Odéon, which is co-producing this ultimate show with Le Maillon in Strasbourg and the Milan Biennale.
At issue: according to the press release, differences in “philosophy”, and non-compliance with “values” of Comedy. Clearly, the exhaustion of part of the Swiss technical team subjected to “contradictory injunctions” and chaotic but also howls in front of witnesses towards Lupa’s most faithful collaborator and translator, Agnieszka Zgieb, who for her part considers today that “the absolute urgency is to save the spec
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