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Ollia Horton

British theatre director Tim Crouch is an Englishman in Avignon

Tim Crouch Avignon Shakespeare France
British playwright, actor and director Tim Crouch in the piece "An Oak Tree", which he performed in the Cloitre des Céléstins at the Avignon Festival Festival, July 2023. Christophe Raynaud de Lage - Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Dressed casually in flipflops and a loose white shirt, British theatre director and actor Tim Crouch has a lot to smile about. He has two plays in the Avignon festival this year, the first time he’s ever performed in France. And the French adaptation of one of his plays happens to be in the “off” fringe festival. Not a bad debut.

For some reason even he cannot fathom, Tim Crouch has never put on a show in France. His work has toured the rest of Europe for years, but here in France his work is only being discovered now.

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