2023-07-25 12:00:49
The profusion of shows, including more than 1,400 in the Off, requires a drastic selection, of which here are ten jewels chosen by Franceinfo.culture
Three weeks of theatrical orgy, with two, three, up to four plays a day. The Avignon marathon has nothing to envy to the Cannes film festival. A Raft of the Medusa, a freighter named Moby Dick, Une vie de tapin, Antigone en Amazonie and Un beau monde, nine In and Off theatrical events, enchanting or not, chosen from the heart of a program that was generally well received by many festival-goers in the heat and coolness of the rooms.
IN. “Le Beau monde”, a science fiction parable on the current state of the world
In the distant future, a ritual consists of reviving past civilization by evoking the relics of practices that have now disappeared. Two young actors and an actress follow one another and intertwine to evoke what could be an election, football or a kiss. These enigmatic accounts in their eyes, and all the more humorous, make them just as strange in our eyes, through the scientific hindsight that animates them. Freshness and youth animate this text played with enthusiasm in a minimalist stage performance, where the space-time occupied by the actors is part of the subject. Performed at the Lambert Collection in Avignon, The beautiful world will be resumed in September in Paris at the Cent-quatre.
The beautiful world
By Arthur Amard, Rémi Fortin, Simon Gauchet and Blanche Ripoche
With Arthur Amard, Rémi Fortin, Blanche Ripoche
The Hundred and Four – Workshop 11
From September 12 to 23, 2023
5, rue Curial 75019 Paris
Tel: 01 53 35 50 00
IN. “Antigone in the Amazon” transports the tragedy of Sophocles in the struggle of the Indians to save their Earth
After Jean Anouilh who broke with the codes of Greek tragedy in 1944, Milo Rau continues this work of updating a classic that adapts to the present. It projects the ancient heroine into indigenous Amazon activist Kay Sara through the April 17, 1996 landless massacre in the Amazon state of Para. The Swiss playwright puts the trial of a genocide and an ecological danger in progress. If the subject attracts all our attention, talkative and stuffed with projections, as usual, Milo Rau does not convince in this overconsumption of video images which seek to dialogue with the actors, but in the end dilutes the live performance. Following his passage in the In d’Avignon, Antigone in the Amazon will be on tour in France at the start of the 2023 school year.
Antigone in the Amazon
Author and director: Milo Rau
Avec: Frederico Araujo, Pablo Casella, Sara De Bosschere, Arne De Tremerie
Celestin Theater in Lyon : from October 25 to 28, 2023
National stage of Châteauroux : November 28, 2023
La Villette, Paris : from December 6 to 9, 2023
IN. “Long live the subject! Attempt series 3”: A program of amazing young SACD authors
“Young Death” by Guillaume Cayet
Read by Guillaume Cayet, and accompanied on the violin by Karam al zouhir, young dead keeps you going from start to finish with a very successful reversal of the situation in three quarters of the text, on the subject of the far right. young dead will be played at Factory Theater Nancy-Lorraine National Dramatic Center from March 21 to 24, 2024.
“Fire” by Fanny Alvarez
Feu is a circus musical performance dedicated to percussion in all their forms. With flames and other fireworks on all floors, snare drums, cymbals, bass drums do you want some, aerial acrobatics. Feu is written and performed with an energy that evokes a Dadaist freedom. Fanny Alvarez, Morgane Carnet and Xavier Tabard fill our eardrums with it, earplugs are even distributed for sensitive ears and souls. Joyfully invigorating, especially at ten o’clock in the morning, discovered in the courtyard of the Lycée Saint-Joseph, we wish them a maximum of dates to come.
Until July 25, 10:30 a.m.
Garden of the Virgin of the Lycée Saint-Joseph
62 Rue des Lices, Avignon
Tel: 04 90 14 56 00
OFF. An exclusively female and varied program at the Théâtre des Lila,’s
Authors, directors, choreographers, performers, they occupy the Théâtre des Lila’s with diversity as their credo. “A stage dedicated to women creators”, such is the programming of the Théâtre des Lila’s which offers eleven shows in the Off, young audiences, clowns, alone on stage, contemporary theater and readings, with the common denominator of women authors, director, choreographers and performers, whose programming pays tribute to the two founders of the place dedicated to contemporary creation: Christine Fernandez and Lila Nett, the latter deceased, creators, and linked by dance.
Lila’s Theater
8 Rue Londe, Avignon
Tel: 04 90 33 89 89
Until July 29, from 9:55 a.m.
Release, depending on the parts
OFF. ‘The Moby Dick’ moves from fighting the elements of Melville’s novel, to the social struggle of the dockworkers
The great white sperm whale becomes a huge freighter in the harbor of Le Havre, following a strike by dockers. After the major mining conflicts of the 1970s, that of the dockers seems to have taken over. Lina Lamara succeeds in moving from the metaphysics of Melville to the social of the port of Le Havre with talent. What matters here is the group, embodied in the troupe on stage, nine actors, and an actress. It is increasingly difficult to bring a play with so many participants. The fight of the play overlaps with that of the theatre, where an International of the dockers would play that of the live performance. The beautiful, clever and judiciously used decor actively participates in the show, which is entirely geared towards the spirit of solidarity in a militant sense which, in Avignon, conquered the stage and the public.
Gemini Theater
Until July 29, 11:35 a.m., break Wednesday 26
10 Rue du Vieux Sextier, Avignon
Tel: 04 88 60 72 20
OFF. “The Raft of the Medusa”, a conference show that rewards you with an es-Géricault diploma
In line with a Hector Obalck who teaches us The whole history of painting in less than two hoursOr on The Garden of Delights by Jérôme Bosh, you will learn all about the famous scandalous picture that Géricault painted after the grounding of this freighter, which got stuck in the sand off the coast of Senegal in 1816. Out of 147 people on board, only fifteen survived. Historical, artistic and funny, Anne Cangelosi is classy with class. She ridicules or congratulates the spectators on their knowledge or ignorance on the subject, communicates with the audience. The entrance ticket is a beautiful image, like at school. And we take for his ticket, knowledge and humor, on a news item that became an artistic scandal and a social phenomenon under the Restoration.
Ink Spot Theater
Until July 29, 2 p.m.
1 rue de la Tarasque, Avignon
Tel: 04 90 85 97 13
OFF. “I missed my hustler life by wanting to be an actor”, a body and soul adaptation of “Prostitutions” by Pierre Notte
In this unprecedented intimate text, vigorously staged by Yves Penay, Cécile Fleury embodies alone on stage a child raped and prostituted at 13, whose condition will help her, when she becomes an adult, to become an actress. His destiny demonstrates the identification between the two facets of a man, a woman, a sex professional, an actor. After 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, Cécile Fleury plays an androgynous Jessica Rabbit, but harder. She offers her body, like a prostitute, a god, a goddess? Cécile Fleury in a performance where she is generous with her body, reveals herself from all physical and psychological angles. The piece, it is not, precisely, psychological, which makes sense. Everything is double in the game.
La Luna Theater
Until July 29
1 rue Severine, Avignon
Tel: 04 90 82 40 33
OFF. “Frankenstein”, a faithful and spectacular adaptation that highlights its author, Mary Shelley
In the Gothic continuity of Dracula – Lucy’s Dreamour favorite of Off, Compagnie Miranda gives the Théâtre du Balcon one of the most successful versions of Modern Prometheussubtitle of Frankenstein, founding novel of science fiction in 1818, with the first artificial being in literature. Forced to publish her revolutionary novel anonymously, then under the famous name of Percy. B. Shelley, her young husband, drowned, it was not until two years later that the author was able to print his name on the cover. Daughter of one of England’s first suffragettes and an anarchist father, Mary Schelley ran away at the age of 18 with her young fiancé the poet Shelley, to join Lord Byron, accompanied by his doctor lover Polidori, at Villa Diodati, on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1816. Elexirs du Diable (1815-16) just published by ET A Hoffmann. The evocation of this mythical episode of literary history, that of the woman and author of many unpublished books in France, the very faithful and well collected adaptation of a 400-page novel, the spectacular staging, with effective sets, the sumptuous costumes, make-up, and pyrotechnics, contribute to a fantastic, Gothic theater, which changes zombies very in vogue, whose representatives also prowl in the theaters of Avignon.
Balcony Theater
38 rue Guillaume Puy, Avignon
Until July 28, 2 p.m.
Such. 04 90 85 00 80
OFF. “Malcoms”, reading of the play by Stéphane Dolivet on the grandson of Malcom X, killed in Mexico in 2013
As everything starts with a pen and paper, in the theater is added reading. In front of an audience of listeners with one or more speakers, interpreting their role. The producers discover a text, an interpreter, and the press, with the public, get ahead. The unknown story in France of Malcolm Shabazz, was discovered by Stéphane Dolivet in Mexico, where he lives. Marvin Anthony, who is the age of the victim, a young actor of 28, has the physique and a diction, an eloquence, which stick to the role. His remarkable reading was accompanied by stage directions specified by Wally Valerina Bajeux who directs.
We want to see programmed Malcoms next year at La Luna Theater d’Avignon, where this reading took place, after a detour via Paris in the meantime.
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