To play.
Above all, don't repeat a new white summer.
Festival directors are sure of themselves.
They were also a year ago.
And yet everything was canceled, the beautiful projects announced at a press conference collapsed like houses of cards.
Olivier Py presenting the Avignon program with martial determination and canceling a few days later will remain the icon of this episode ...
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This year, Py adopts the same blind steadfastness.
Refusing to distinguish between indoor and outdoor shows.
Going so far as to project, at the opening, a video of Roselyne Bachelot swearing that the festivals would take place while the Minister of Culture, victim of the Covid, was hospitalized.
Same line in Cannes, where Thierry Frémaux maintains the calendar of announcements after the postponement in July.
While waiting, the ministry leads the dance with great silences between acts.On February 18, Roselyne Bachelot received the directors of the music festivals for a meeting of the last chance.
Then
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