The focus of this review is inspired by the title and the theme of Salia Sanou’s multidisciplinary creation Multiple-S that he brought to Avignon 2019. Migration, exile, economic travel and global tourism created a myriad of people who identify themselves with many languages, cultural traditions and habits at the same time. Multiplicity is the name …
An imaginative, dynamic, and visually striking production SOUS D’AUTRES CIEUX continues the Avignon 2019 theme of exile and making history. Kevin Keiss’s adaption of Virgil’s The Aeneid directed by Maëlle Poésy, the performance from Dijon takes us back to the mythological time of Trojan wars and the rise of Roman empire. Constructed from the fragments of Virgil’s …
Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and concerns that the discussion of history, memory and collective identity today in Europe and elsewhere demands. Avignon 2019 pays special attention to these urgent topics with more than a few productions telling stories of displacement. Le Présent qui …
Artsfile.ca July 5 2019 A Company of Fools presents Romeo and Juliet. Photo: JVL Photography Has A Company of Fools rediscovered its mojo? After a series of hits and misses, including last summer’s unfocused Twelfth Night, and an apparent struggle over just how much of their beloved foolery they want to inject into their …
6 juillet, 2019 Madinin-art.net Avignon — Par Michèle Bigot — Voici l’exemple d’une réussite totale : un spectacle à la fois actuel et intemporel, drôle et dramatique, émouvant et esthétique, tout y est. C’est l’histoire de six femmes en prison, qui se retrouvent dans la bibliothèque le soir de Noël et tentent de conjurer la tristesse …
Playing in the intimate black box space of the Firehall Theatre at TIP, Farren Timoteo’s one-man show Made in Italy (a production from Western Canada Theatre) is a suitably personal story which draws the audience into the world of the playwright’s characters. Timoteo’s show not only succeeds on the emotional front but also …
Moving along with the themes of history, memory and forgetting – the focus of Paul Ricœur’s famous philosophical book on the limits and ethical implications of understanding the past – Avignon 2019 offers two chorus performances — Dévotion – Dernière offrande aux dieux morts and Nous, l’Europe, Banquet des peoples — that propose two different …
— Par Roland Sabra —26 mai, 2019 Martinique Théâtre noir, l’expression est polysémique. Elle renvoie d’une part au Théâtre noir de Prague dans lequel des acteurs entièrement vêtus de noir jouent devant un fond noir leur permettant de choisir ce qu’ils veulent montrer aux spectateurs, comme des objets lumineux, phosphorescents, voire des personnages qui flottent …
— Par Selim Lander —25 janvier 2019 Madinin-art L’enclos de l’éléphant d’Etienne Lepage Nouvelle heureuse surprise grâce à ETC-Caraïbe et au festival des Petites Formes, il ne s’agit plus comme avec Françoise Dô (voir notre billet précédent) de l’éclosion d’un talent que nous avions vu bourgeonnant mais de la découverte d’un auteur québécois confirmé à …
Following the themes of the Avignon 2019, Alexandra Badea’s Points de non-retour [Quais de Seine], a second part of the trilogy that Badea developed during her residence at Théâtre de la Colline under the patronage of Wajdi Mouawad and his long standing collaborator and dramaturge Charlotte Farcet, connects current European migration to the history of its …