Cultural report

Off from Avignon: "Crossing in clear water in a swimming pool painted black" at the Théâtre du Train Bleu

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Dorothy Karen Mueller says Cookie Mueller, adored in the United States, but little known in Europe.

© Max Müller

By: Muriel Maalouf

The 76th edition of the Theater Festival has just started.

The “In” with more than 40 shows and the big “Off” machine that fills the city every summer in the former City of the Popes with a number of shows that continues to grow, more than 1,500 this year.

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The Théâtre du Train Bleu is a place where contemporary plays and emerging writings are concentrated.

It's there, at 10:30 p.m. every night, that the story of Cookie Mueller, a figure of American counterculture, is told

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