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Le Printemps des Comédiens de Montpellier canceled due to the pandemic

2020-04-07T13:48:41.653Z


"We believe that we must act responsibly to protect the public and the large number of people required for the festival from any risk of contamination," explains Jean Varela's team.


The Printemps des Comédiens de Montpellier, scheduled for May 29 to June 27, has been canceled due to the coronavirus crisis, announced Tuesday the team of the second theater festival of France, which traditionally launches the season before Avignon.

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"The exceptional sanitary situation we face (...) forces us to make difficult decisions", underlines in a press release the team of this festival chaired by the author Jean-Claude Carrière and directed by Jean Varela. "In view of the scale of the epidemic, we believe that we must act responsibly to protect the public and the large number of people required for the festival from any risk of contamination," the press release continued. "It was with great sadness that we resolved this decision," added the team.

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“Let’s stay together looking to the future!”, She concludes, already announcing the 2021 edition of Printemps, from May 28 to June 27, and concluding with a quote from Shakespeare: swallow wings ”.

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Each year the Printemps des Comédiens welcomes major European directors and introduces new talents before the opening of the international meeting in Avignon. At the end of March, the director of the Avignon Festival, Olivier Py, had declared to La Provence to have "good hope" that this world meeting of the theater planned from July 3 to 23 will continue. "For the moment" the question of its cancellation "does not arise", he had then assured. Olivier Py must also present his program at an online press conference Wednesday afternoon.

Source: lefigaro

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