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Carolina Bianchi will drug herself unconscious on stage — but shock is not the point

The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella is coming to the Southbank. It’s an intense exploration of violence against women, but the creator doesn’t want to linger on the shock factor of her performance

Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2025

The Confessions review – dazzling drama drawn from a mother’s memories

Alexander Zeldin’s profoundly moving play grew from his parent’s reflections, which he uses to conjure an epic struggle for love and freedom

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2023

Environmental art project immerses Avignon audiences in the great outdoors

The pan-European project "Shared Landscapes" saw nine artists create seven works around the theme of humanity’s relationship to nature. Performed this month in the countryside of southern France for the Avignon theatre festival, the series will tour Europe over the coming year. RFI spoke to one of the artists involved:…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 30, 2023

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Farce or nightmare? Tim Etchells takes Avignon audiences on surreal journey

British director Tim Etchells is back in Avignon for the annual theatre festival, where his latest play is being performed around the city in locations from schools to gardens. “L’Addition” is a hilarious, absurdist sketch set in a restaurant. As the scene between a waiter and a customer spirals out…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 22, 2023

British theatre director Tim Crouch is an Englishman in Avignon

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…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 11, 2023

Avignon festival ‘a pocket of utopian resistance’, says new director

Actor, writer and director Tiago Rodrigues, from Portugal, is the first foreigner to head up the Avignon Festival, now in its 77th year. In addition to maintaining the tradition of presenting innovative performing arts projects from around the globe to the diverse public that attends the festival, he is also…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 5, 2023

Avignon festival review – hit the timewarp gym and dive into a trippy Chekhov

There are epic and uneven shows from Olivier Py and Simon Falguières but Kirill Serebrennikov and Miet Warlop prove to be essential theatre voices

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2022

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