US EditionAvignon Festival 2025: Arabic Voices Take the Stage as Theatre Confronts Pelicot Case
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Avignon Festival 2025: Arabic voices take the stage as theatre confronts Pelicot case
This week on arts24, Eve Jackson is in the studio while our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear is on the ground at one of the world’s most iconic theatre gatherings – the Avignon Festival in southern France. Now in its 79th year, the event is turning heads with a bold and timely focus on Arabic-language works, shining a light on one of France’s most spoken – yet still underrepresented – languages on stage. Festival director Tiago Rodrigues continu…
_**The 79th edition of the famous festival marries bold creation and political positions, between homage to Arab cultures and support for contemporary causes.**_ The Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes vibrated on Saturday evening under the dissonant notes of *Nôt*, the opening piece signed by Cap-Verdienne choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas. Between grotesque masks, [...] L'article Avignon 2025: An engaged festival opens on a confusing perfo…
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