What would theatre be without actors, without the risks they take every night, without their shamelessness and intelligence? The passion of the audience finds its source in the characters they play and, oddly, from the start of the Festival d'Avignon, in the beauty, striking look, and presence of Jeanne Moreau. I am all of you listening explores the career of a woman who lived the history of the Festival from 1947 to 2011, beside Jean Vilar or Étienne Daho, with the words of Henrich von Kleist or Alfred de Musset, and in roles as different as Nathalie or Célestine. Even in 2014, […]
Cabu, who was known and recognised for his illustrations in Hara-kiri, Charlie Hebdo, or the Canard Enchaîné, also used his talents as an exceptional cartoonist to sketch the world of theatre. From the 60s onwards, Cabu went to the theatre several times per week. He was a passionate theatre-goer - private and publicly funded theatres alike - but with a particular attachment to the Comédie-Française. Cabu first went to the Festival in 1970, when it was still directed by Jean Vilar. He was a regular visitor, as testified by his sketchbooks. Year after year, Cabu was there to cast his […]
PROGRAMME (download the pdf version here) - EXHIBITION « I'm all of you listening. Jeanne Moreau a life of theater » At 11 am to 8 pm, the 15th of september (last entry at 7:15 pm) At 11 am to 6 pm, the 16th of september (last entry at 5:15 pm) This exhibition explores the career of a woman who lived the history of the Festival from 1947 to 2011, beside Jean Vilar or Étienne Daho, with the words of Henrich von Kleist or Alfred de Musset, and in roles as different as Nathalie or Célestine. Even in 2014, her […]
PROGRAMME - INSTALLATIONS Sound installation « Portrait Paysage » // « landsacape portrait » // « portrait landscape » at 1 pm to 6pm, Friday, the 21th of september at 11 am to 6 pm, Saturday the 22 of september at 11 am to 4 pm, Sunday the 23th of septembre Sound portraits and landscapes is a shared moment where the word is fixed. A photography of free and voluntary words, gleanded during the meetings. AUTORS : Stéphane Delaunay (Compagnie les Mauvaises Herbes) Association le Village City of the realisation of the project : Cavaillon Video […]
Artist welcomed at the House Jean Vilar from tuesday to sathurday from 11h to 18h from the 29th september tu the 21th octobor Charlotte Gunsett "Childhood is at the heart of Charlotte Gunsett's work. We could say a starting point. The clumsy gestures of childhood, the representations we make of them are digested and interpreted by this young artist through her sculptures. Her universe is elaborated by fragments of memories. She touches with her fingers these fleeting, perishable, ephemeral moments in order to give them a moment of eternity. The sand can both be solid and erect in architecture, as it […]
An exhibition of Macha Makeïeff Entrer dans une maison pour être moins perdue. La lumière, l’effroi, l’enfance, la rêverie, embarquer les choses recueillies, faire un récit fantaisiste. Et les petites filles imaginaires dans cette maison auront tous les droits, les désirs les plus romanesques. - Macha Makeïeff Do inanimate objects have a soul, a part of humanity locked inside them? The primal terror or the familiar feeling of strangeness we sometimes experience upon encountering them unveil an unconscious part of us: the one we meet in our dreams. That's what Spoilsportis about. A reminder of our unconsciousand its malfunctions... In this installation […]
She would be a hundred years old. He would be the same age. She and he, terrible children of the post-war boards, children of paradise on the screens of liberation, they are the idols of a youth that has known all the deprivations, a youth eager for modernity, in love with freedom. She and he lent themselves to all new experiences: the secular poetry of Henri Pichette, the modern tragedy of Camus, the great popular adventure of the TNP with Jean Vilar. Maria, the Galician brunette with green eyes experienced the ordeal of exile. Is that why she so often […]
Christophe Raynaud de Lage has been photographing the shows of the Festival d’Avignon for seventeen years now, both backstage and on. Courtyards, cloisters, gymnasiums, quarries, wind, heat, and rain are all part of the background for him… Day and night, he takes thousands of pictures destined to a strange life. They appear on the Festival’s website almost in real time on the night of the premiere, show up as illustrations for a news article the next day, and provide a touch of colour on social media throughout the Festival… A few weeks later, they accompany artists on international tours, before […]
