Pelicot Affair, Wars in the Middle East... At the Avignon Festival, Current Events Take to the Stage

"I try to take a sensitive look at a part of reality that will grab me at some point," says Cédric Orain, who is addressing anxiety among young people in Le Journal de Maïa at the Avignon Off Festival (Théâtre du Train Bleu, from July 5 to 24). " My ambition is for the show to bring something to the life of the adolescent. I avoid the posture of morality. I am not a witness to a society." The author and director illustrates Picasso's phrase: "Reality is the way you see things." He is one of the many authors today to address social issues through theater, sometimes called documentary theater.

Last May, Lorraine de Sagazan and Guillaume Poix considered themselves the "guarantors of justice in our country." By immersing themselves in the heart of the contemporary penal system to highlight the consequences of immediate appearance through a "fiction" ( Leviathan ). For this ^79th edition...