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Top Shows at Festival Avignon 2023: From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf and Neanderthals

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Fabienne Pascal (Telerama)
Armelle Heliot (The Doctor’s Daily)
Jacques Nerson (L’Obs)
Vincent Josse (France Inter)

“The Dream” by Shakespeare, by Gwenaël Morin

Jean Vilar House and resumed at La Villette from September 27 to October 20

Virginie Colemyn, Julian Eggerickx, Barbara Jung and Grégoire Monsaingeon) are the four lovers but also the princes and fairies of this ancient Greek forest where they spend the night

“Writing Your Life” by Virginia Woolf, by Pauline Bayle

At the Cloister of the Carmelites

The director of the Public Theater of Montreuil (where the show will be resumed from September 26 to October 21) adapts the novel by Virginia Woolf, “The Waves”, to tell the dazzle of childhood and the disenchantment of adulthood.

“Neanderthal” de David Geselson

At Greater Avignon-Vedene

The author is inspired by the work of paleogeneticist and Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo, the author of “Neanderthals, in search of lost genomes”.

“The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella” by Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo

► At Lycée Aubanel

The Brazilian artist recounts the hell of rape and feminicide. A show not recommended for those under 18, of which “some scenes may offend the sensitivity of the public”.

Off: “The Brief Liaison of Mom” ​​by Richard Greenberg

At the Little Louvre

A comedy about a neurotic and dysfunctional New York Jewish family, directed by Isabelle Starkier, with Frédéric Andrau, Francine Bergé, Anne Le Guernec and Jean-Jacques Vanier.

Off: “Agathe Royale” by Jean-Benoît Patricot, by Christophe Lidon

In Gemini until July 29.

Agathe Royale (Catherine Jacob), a diva of the theatre, cracks up on stage while performing “Médée”. She then tells her life to the spectators.

The advice of your critics in the Off

2023-07-23 11:06:04


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