Highlights, support from the City, his personal future… At the time of passing the baton to Tiago Rodrigues, Olivier Py, who directed Avignon for eight years, takes stock of his experience as director of the biggest festival theatre.
After having addressed a vibrant letter of emotions to his successor Tiago Rodrigues, during his final press conference at the direction of the Festival d’Avignon, the director and writer Olivier Py, 57 years old since July 24, testifies to his years Avignonnaises and the results he draws from it, since his arrival in 2014 in the glorious City of the Popes.
How do you feel during these last days at the head of the festival?
Destroy. Avignon is my life, my city. And it will remain my city. Because I discovered everything there. Theater, politics, love, the fact that we could act on the world via the stage. The Festival d’Avignon has sown, fertilized my existence. It encourages daring, risk-taking that you can’t even imagine in Paris. All experiences are possible here. It exacerbates, exalts the limits of creators. Thanks to its public, no doubt, always exceptional since its creation in 1947, and like nowhere else, at the same time open, popular and incredibly learned. Even if I regret today, although it is getting younger, that the 40-year-old generation is curiously missing; we lost them, we get them back at 50.
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