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Elise Vigier, mirror game, game mirror

Audio 48:30

Freely inspired by the Fantastic News and the diaries of Anaïs Nin, staged by Elise Vigier from the text by Agnès Desarthe.

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage - Avignon Festival

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The 76th Festival d'Avignon opened this Thursday, July 6, 2022. A still very rich program with around forty shows in the "In" Festival, and no less than 1,570 shows in the "Off".

A theatrical event that brings together a diversity of writings, interpretations from all horizons and a diversity of audiences without comparison.

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 The first two guests of this 1st VMDN broadcast at the Festival d'Avignon are:

• Elise Vigier

  who is directing “ 

  Anaïs Nin at the mirror

   ” from a text by Agnès Desarthe to be applauded at the Benoît XII theater until July 16 as part of the Festival In d'Avignon.

  A plural and feminist portrait of the Franco-American writer who turns out to be an incredible theater character. 

• Guy Giroud

   directs “ 

  Tales under the baobab

   ” with actors and musicians from the Marbayassa company from Burkina Faso.

  A piece for all audiences, young and old, presented as part of the Festival OFF.

  It can be seen at the Le Tremplin theater – Salle les Baladins until July 30.

Report:

 Iphigénie, this young girl sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to obtain a favorable wind for his fleet.

Euripides has already delivered his version of the myth, Racine too, this time it is the turn of Tiago Rodrigues, the future director of the IN d'Avignon festival, in a staging by Anne Théron.

 saw the piece for us.

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