This new international festival in Limoges  created in  1984 by Pierre DeBauche after the Avignon Festival refused to accept a production of  Shakespeare  proposed by Martinique, put in place a  new  relationship with international Francophone  theatre. One could  say that Aimé Césaire’s first decision in Martinique, to create the Théâtre de la Soif nouvelle in  1982, giving voice to the Negritude in companies around the world,  gave a serious impetus to the creation of the festival in Limoges.

 

Monique Blin became the director of the new Festival in France with the support of director Patrick Le Muff who returned again this year (2018) to present a play by Nathalie Sarraute- Pour un oui ou un non, in a production with a  creole-speaking cast of   mixed ethnicity  from Martinique, the sign that times have  certainly changed. …

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