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Avignon 2019: Irène Bonnaud’s Amité and The Lessons in Juicy Comedy, Delicious Acting and Humanity of Being

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 4th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review

Let me tell you a secret- I love the old good comedy, its extensive gestures, inappropriate jokes,...

Avignon Festival 2019: “L’Amour Vainqueur”

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 31st Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences

What a delight, a relief and a sheer pleasure to sit through Olivier Py’s operetta for children...

Avignon 2019: Imagining Two Plays That Embody the Ghosts of Europe. “Dévotion” and “Nous l’Europe”

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 29th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics

Moving along with the themes of history, memory and forgetting – the focus of Paul Ricœur’s famous...

Avignon 2019: “Architecture” – Between History and Philosophy

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 25th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review

Walter Benjamin once said that storytelling is a form of “artisan communication”, a...

Avignon 2019: Staging the Impossible. On Exile, Community and Hope in Christiane Jatahy’s “Le Présent Qui Déborde – Notre Odyssée II”

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Brazil, France, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and...

Avignon 2019: In Search Of Multiple Selves: “Multiple-S” By Salia Sanou And “Oskara” By Kukai Dantza

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 21st Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Burkina Faso, Devised Theatre, Festivals, France, Review

The focus of this review is inspired by the title and the theme of Salia Sanou’s multidisciplinary...

Avignon 2019: Seeking Truth: On History, Memory and Fiction in Alexandra Badea’s Points de Non-Retour [Quais de Seine]

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 20th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics

Following the themes of the Avignon 2019, Alexandra Badea’s Points de non-retour [Quais de...

Avignon 2019: Reading the Open Ending of “Sous D’autres Cieux” (“Under Different Skies”)

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 18th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review

An imaginative, dynamic, and visually striking production Sus d’autres cieux continues the...

International Playwrights Showcased at Columbia University School of the Arts

Posted by John Brunner | 30th Jun 2019 | Chile, France, News, Spain, Translation, United States of America

In June 2019, Columbia University School of Arts staged the second annual International Play...

“The Damned”: La Comédie Française On the Barbican Stage.

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 29th Jun 2019 | Adaptation, France, Review, United Kingdom

Ivo Van Hove directed the theatrical adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1969 Nazi-era film The...

Interview with Marina Montefusco, Le Clan des Songes

Posted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 27th Jun 2019 | France, Interview, Puppetry

Before leaving for New York for the presentation of Bout à Bout, Marina Montefusco, founder of the...

Performing Arts Festivals In France – Summer 2019

Posted by French Culture | 8th May 2019 | Festivals, France, News

Summer returns with its numerous performing art festivals in France. From long-running and...

Interview With Olivier Py’s American Actors

Posted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 27th Mar 2019 | France, Interview, Musical Theatre

The four American actors (Alex, Nadia, Whit, and Ben) of Olivier Py’s musical The Young Girl, The...

Interview With Director Johanny Bert

Posted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 20th Mar 2019 | France, Interview, Theatre for Young Audiences

Recently, in February, Johanny Bert, Director/actor/puppeteer developed the play She No Princess,...

Yngvild Aspeli’s “Ashes”: Puppets That Haunt And Kindle

Posted by Abigail Weil | 17th Mar 2019 | France, Norway, Puppetry, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

When does desire give way to fixation, compulsion, addiction? In Yngvild Aspeli’s exquisite show...

French Playwright Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at The Kiln Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Mar 2019 | France, London, Review, United Kingdom

Well, you have to hand it to French playwright Florian Zeller — he’s certainly cracked the problem...

Machinations Of Circus And Light: “When Angels Fall” Created By Rapaëlle Boitel At ArtsEmerson

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 27th Feb 2019 | Boston, Devised Theatre, France, Review, United States of America

Using the tools of the circus, performance art, modern dance, and puppetry, the French director...

Decor as Protagonist: Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati on Theatre and The New Climate Regime

Posted by Sébastien Hendrickx and Kristof van Baarle | 18th Feb 2019 | France, Interview, Theatre and Science

What do we humans have in common with wales, mushrooms, bacteria or the internet? We are all...

Interview With Olivier Comte, Les Souffleurs

Posted by French Culture | 11th Feb 2019 | France, Interview

Les Souffleurs, a collective of more than 60 artists mostly based in France, are known for their...

Post-Apocalyptic Ambiguity Of The Inner Light: A Conversation With The Creators Of “When Angels Fall”

Posted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 10th Feb 2019 | Boston, France, Interview, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

ArtsEmerson is honored to host the New England premiere of When Angels Fall, a riveting tale of...

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Avignon 2019: Irène Bonnaud’s Amité and The Lessons in Juicy Comedy, Delicious Acting and Humanity of Being

Avignon Festival 2019: “L’Amour Vainqueur”

Avignon 2019: Imagining Two Plays That Embody the Ghosts of Europe. “Dévotion” and “Nous l’Europe”

Avignon 2019: “Architecture” – Between History and Philosophy

Avignon 2019: Staging the Impossible. On Exile, Community and Hope in Christiane Jatahy’s “Le Présent Qui Déborde – Notre Odyssée II”

Avignon 2019: In Search Of Multiple Selves: “Multiple-S” By Salia Sanou And “Oskara” By Kukai Dantza

Avignon 2019: Seeking Truth: On History, Memory and Fiction in Alexandra Badea’s Points de Non-Retour [Quais de Seine]

Avignon 2019: Reading the Open Ending of “Sous D’autres Cieux” (“Under Different Skies”)

International Playwrights Showcased at Columbia University School of the Arts

“The Damned”: La Comédie Française On the Barbican Stage.

Interview with Marina Montefusco, Le Clan des Songes

Performing Arts Festivals In France – Summer 2019

Interview With Olivier Py’s American Actors

Interview With Director Johanny Bert

Yngvild Aspeli’s “Ashes”: Puppets That Haunt And Kindle

French Playwright Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at The Kiln Theatre

Machinations Of Circus And Light: “When Angels Fall” Created By Rapaëlle Boitel At ArtsEmerson

Decor as Protagonist: Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati on Theatre and The New Climate Regime

Interview With Olivier Comte, Les Souffleurs

Post-Apocalyptic Ambiguity Of The Inner Light: A Conversation With The Creators Of “When Angels Fall”

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