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The 80th Avignon Festival: Theatre, Korea, and Questions

"Let the festival be the festival of questioning, without fear..." launched Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Avignon Festival, during the presentation of the program, this Wednesday 8 April at the FabricA in Avignon. 47 shows, including 27 directed by women, and a guest language, Korean, will be on display. On 4 July, at the Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes, Julien Gosselin, the terrible child of the theatre, will open the 2026 edition with "M…

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Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Avignon Festival, unveiled on Wednesday 8 April the poster of its 80th edition, which will take place from 4 to 25 July. It is also an opportunity to unveil the programme of shows which will be surprising.

"Let the festival be the festival of questioning, without fear..." launched Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Avignon Festival, during the presentation of the program, this Wednesday 8 April at the FabricA in Avignon. 47 shows, including 27 directed by women, and a guest language, Korean, will be on display. On 4 July, at the Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes, Julien Gosselin, the terrible child of the theatre, will open the 2026 edition with "M…

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The programme of the next Avignon festival was unveiled with Korean as a guest language. ...

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Gosselin at the Court of Honour, Boris Charmatz returns with "Muette", Brazilian actor Wagner Maura at Christiane Jatahy and Korean language as guest, it is time to look at the programme of the event which takes place from 4 to 25 July.

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The Avignon Festival, which will celebrate its 80th edition from 4 to 25 July 2026, announces as "a great festival of questions" shared between artists and spectators. After English, Spanish and Arabic, the language invited this summer is Korean.

The programming of the next edition of the Festival d'Avignon, which will take place this summer, has just been announced: 47 shows, 49 artists from more than 10 countries and Korean as a guest language. If this edition does not bring any answers, it will ask a lot of questions and promises surprises.

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Liberation broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
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