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Swiss theatre director Milo Rau, who has become an important figure in contemporary Western theatre with his works that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, push the boundaries of traditional theatre, and display an innovative and sometimes radical approach, often using theatre as a tool for social commentary and participation, is in Istanbul for the second time with his work La Reprise. It would not be wrong to say that art and activism are intertwined in Rau's work, who previously as part of the Istanbul Theatre Festival, encountered the Istanbul audience with his work called Hate Radio, that was about the genocide which took place in Rwanda in 1994. Rau, who as part of his Trilogy of Antique Myths, has rehearsed an adaptation of Oresteia by Aeschylus in Iraq in 2019, then staged a film with refugees in Matera, Italy for The New Gospel, has most recently focused on the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil where farmers occupy non-working fields and grow crops inspired ...

Among the invitees of the 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon – one of the world's prominent performing arts festivals, taking place from July 5th to 25th, 2023, was the Brazilian director, playwright and actor Carolina Bianchi who was invited by Tiago Rodrigues, the festival director and a Portuguese theatre-maker. Based in Amsterdam, Bianchi made her debut at the Avignon Festival, presenting the world premiere of her performance A Noiva e o Noite Cinderela (The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella), the first part of her Cadela Força (Bitch Power) Trilogy. Bianchi is the director of the collective Cara de Cavalo (Horse Face) and her works explore the gaps between theatre, performance, and dance while addressing issues such as patriarchy, phantasmagoria, historical agreements, gender crisis, colonial heritage, and excessive eroticism. She describes her artistic practice as involving “physical practices engaging in a lively conversation with imagination, intervening in the ...

In this year's 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon, our performing arts editor and writer Ayşe Draz, along with our performing arts writer Mehmet Kerem Özel, engaged in conversations with the artists of the performances they watched between July 6th and 10th. The second conversation is with John Collins, the artistic director of the American group Elevator Repair Service, and Greig Sargeant, who plays Baldwin in the play. © Christophe Raynaud de Lage  Portuguese theatre figure Tiago Rodrigues, the festival director, states in his introductory essay for the 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon – one of the world's prominent performing arts festivals –, held from July 5th to 25th, 2023, that "We do not accept a world divided by borders, for we believe that the organization of the world, its pasts and presents, must be based on the freedom of languages with their complex richness." Building on this notion, Rodrigues plans to emphasize a different language ea...

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage  The 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon, one of the most important performing arts festivals in the world, took place from 5th to 25th July. The programme of this first edition, prepared by the Portuguese actor, director, playwright and producer Tiago Rodrigues (1977), who was appointed director of the Festival for four years, included 44 performances. The first of the conversations that we had with the artists of the performances we saw between 6th and 10th July at this year's edition was with Belgian contemporary artist and storyteller Patrick Corillon (1959). Corillon (1959) took part in the festival with his show ' Portrait de l'artiste en ermite ornemental ' (Portrait of the artist as an ornamental hermit).  After studying at the Institut des Hautes Études en arts plastiques in Paris, Corillon decided to focus on travelling and on a practical experience of art through installations, scenographies, sculptures, book publishing, fi...