2023-07-12 11:03:24
The Festival d’Avignon kicked off on Wednesday 5 July. L’Éclaireur looks back on four shows that have already marked this 77th edition.
1 Welfare by Julie Deliquet
This 77th edition of the Festival d’Avignon opened with Welfare by Julie Deliquet. Adapted on the boards of the documentary of the same name by Frederick Wiseman, the show shows the daily life of welfare recipients in New York in the 1970s. Touching in many ways, the play bears witness to the harsh reality to which face those who depend on these offices.
It also does not fail to underline the administrative dysfunctions, far too numerous and still topical, which occur there and only increase precariousness. “I have a lot of admiration for Julie’s work ”explained the American director, present in the assembly, to FranceInfo. “I believe that the situation of my film exists everywhere. Regulations differ from country to country, but there are poor, mentally or physically handicapped people everywhere. They need state help. The piece may resonate with the French. »
2 The Bride and Good Night Cinderella by Carolina Bianchi
With The Bride and Good Night Cinderella, Carolina Bianchi signs a work that will remain engraved in the memories as the subject is serious and the representation realistic. Even before it begins, the festival warns that the performance, prohibited for those under 18, contains scenes that could “offend the sensibilities”. In fact, on the boards, the Brazilian actress offers a reflection on rape, the fate of those who survive it and feminicides.
After a conference given in Portuguese, punctuated by extracts from The Divine Comedy by Dante and projections of The history of Nastagio degli Onesti of Botticelli, the artist ingests what we are accustomed to nicknamed the rape drug in order to drag the public into the ensuing hell. “I’m not doing this piece for catharsis. I don’t believe in healing, because that fact is never going to go away.”assured theAFP Carolina Bianchi, herself a victim of rape ten years ago. A European tour is planned.
3 garden of delights by Philippe Quesnes
After seven years of closure, Philippe Quesnes inaugurates the mythical Carrière de Boulbon with The Garden of Delights. In this unique setting, devoid of stage and decor, evolve characters that seem straight out of the 1970s. Dressed in bell bottoms, fringes and cowboy boots, they kick a pickaxe to lay a huge egg .
The incomprehension of the public is distilled little by little in a sequence of sequences, each more absurd than the other, sometimes disjointed, that the assembly can only appreciate or hate, without half measures. Inspired by Bosch’s paintings, all the scenes nevertheless offer a spectacle of certain plastic beauty.
4 The dream by Gwenael Morin
This year, Gwenaël Morin blows a wind of freshness and insolence on a classic of the theatrical repertoire by presenting a joyful and unbridled version of Dream of a summer night the William Shakespeare. Dance The dreamthe director at the origin of “permanent theatre” – this way of performing works continuously, with very few decorative elements – devotes himself to a veritable manifesto of the genre.
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The adventures of the thwarted loves of the four young nobles of the original play intersect and intersect in a Dionysian celebration where feelings triumph over the rest. From its first performance, this Saturday, July 8, the performance was able to seduce the public, largely carried away by this burlesque world on the border of the dream.
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