From Ukraine to Gisèle Pelicot: at the Avignon Festival, theater engages in dialogue with reality

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This summer, in Avignon, we'll be performing Ibsen and Claudel, Jean Giono and Aeschylus. Directors will be delivering their own texts, from Tiago Rodrigues to Jeanne Candel, including Samuel Achache. But we'll also, more than ever, embrace reality. We'll seize it, knead it, transcend it to create powerful theatrical material. In order to show the world as it is (badly), from Europe to the Middle East, a number of guest artists have gathered, collected, and written down a wealth of infinitely rich documentary material. Now it's become theater. And at the Carmes cloister, at FabricA, and at the Théâtre Benoît-XII in particular, the scenes will echo and mirror the tumult of the times.

Tiago Rodrigues, director of the festival , himself the creator of "Dans la mesure de l'impossible," a show dedicated to humanitarian workers a few years ago, notes : "There is a real thirst among many artists to engage in concrete dialogue with reality and to build a very direct bridge with the public. It's a way of saying that we inhabit the same world and breathe the same air, at the same time. It is possible to…

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