He has announced that each year a foreign language will be given pride of place in the Cité des Papes. The invitation from the Avignon Festival's new director is both political and aesthetic in nature. This year, they have selected just one playwright, Alistair McDowall, chosen in response to Rodrigues' requests: "Surprised that no relationship already existed between us and the festival, Tiago told me of his fascination with the diversity of English and the fact that it is spoken everywhere, even if sometimes as a colonial and imposed language," said Featherstone. Her team receives 3,000 submissions a year and only commissions a handful of productions. We find the voices of tomorrow and offer them a stage where they can express themselves," said Featherstone. Their method? Challenge the stage and the performance with texts that deconstruct language to better resonate with the world. Since 1956, playwrights have been exploring new theatrical possibilities. The Royal Court is a British institution: part publishing house, part performance space, part bastion of the dramatic avant-garde. The renowned institution has produced works by Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Eugène Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Edward Bond and Sarah Kane. His visit took him to the office of Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of this sanctuary of contemporary writing for the past 10 years. ![]() No sooner had he been appointed festival director than Tiago Rodrigues headed to London's upmarket Sloane Square district, home of the Royal Court Theatre, to invite the English to join him in Provence for his first edition. ![]() ![]() MANUEL HARLANīrexit won't affect Avignon. Subscribers only Kate O'Flynn, in "All of It," at the Royal Court Theatre, June 2023. Avignon Festival adopts an English accentįor this year's edition, the festival director Tiago Rodrigues is exploring the state of British creativity by inviting the Royal Court Theatre, as well as Tim Etchells and Tim Crouch.īy Joëlle Gayot (London) Published on July 7, 2023, at 5:00 am (Paris), updated on July 7, 2023, at 5:00 am
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