A few days after having, death in the soul and the cat in the throat, announced the cancellation of the 74th Festival d'Avignon, Olivier Py, its director, drew from his sleeve a final card, his last asset: an edition catching up, reviewed and narrowed down for the All Saints holidays.
Sixteen à la carte shows, seven of which were initially scheduled in July.
Composed in a hurry, this palliative edition has, let's say, nothing comparable with the usual fair in July.
When it was set up, the organizers thought that the virus would only be a bad memory at the start of the school year.
But it seems that he has held up and the planned gauges (10,000 to 11,000 spectators against 150,000 in good years) have been further reduced by half.
Half of a tenth, then.
When we considered taking a few shows from the festival to play them in October, the name “Une Semaine d'Art en Avignon” came naturally.
Olivier Py, director of the Festival d'Avignon
Under the arcades of the Saint-Louis cloister, where the ticket exchange usually takes place, the walls this year are bare.
In the yard, the trees have already lost their leaves.
A guide
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