CULTURE At the Festival Off in Avignon, Numbers Rise and More Space for Youth

We have to talk about it all the same: this edition — to date, the final figures being known only at the end of the Festival — will see 1,724 shows. "It's more than last year," says Laurent Rochut, vice-president of Avignon Festival & Compagnies (AF&C). But stopping there would be a little short: "It's an indicator of one thing, that the shows come for shorter durations, since the number of curtains is equivalent to last year", he develops. 27,4…