conversations in ten questions 59: John Collins & Greig Sargeant (Elevator Repair Service)
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...