Itinerant shows

A major actor of cultural democratisation since 1947, the Festival d’Avignon has spread its regional action well beyond the ramparts, following the principle that “it isn’t the neighbourhoods that need us, but us who need the neighbourhoods.”

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EVER CLOSER TO THE PUBLIC: ITINERANT SHOWS © DR

Since 2013, many projects have been conducted as part of the “3-kilometer decentralisation.” Among them are itinerant shows. The idea is simple: to offer plays with very little technical requirements, which can break the isolation of young audiences whose access to culture is limited. Every summer, between 10 and 15 structures—towns, social centres, companies…—from around Avignon now welcome this programme.

Anne-Mathilde Di Tomaso, Director of Production

From 2014 to 2023

77e edition // L'Addition - Tim Etchells

A customer orders a drink and things go awry. With this scene tirelessly repeated by performers Bert & Nasi, Tim Etchells’s bill turns out to be steep indeed. Are we in a nightmare or in a comedy?

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76e edition // Soon in the woods - Pierre-Yves Chapalain

A young couple who just moved from the city to the countryside and a crowd of villagers see their lives upended by wild parties whose location no one can seem to find…

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Soon in the woods

75e edition // Mister Tambourine Man - Karelle Prugnaud

Niko, the misanthropic waiter, meets Dan, a tired and wonderful smooth-talker. What should he do? Kick this “stranger” out, or listen to him and find himself in the process?

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Mister Tambourine Man

Une Semaine d’art en Avignon // Endless Andromaque - Gwenaël Morin

Between political interests, romantic passions, and fate, a unique and luminous version of Racine’s Andromaque, endlessly changing!

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Endless Andromaque

73rd edition // Frienship - Irène Bonnaud

A Neapolitan wise man is following the star of Bethlehem, but he is delayed by a series of hilarious encounters. By the time he gets there, Christ is long dead…

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Friendship

72nd edition // Ahmed’s comeback - Didier Galas

In this philosophical farce, Ahmed, who never takes off his mask, returns to the stage. A worthy heir to Scapin, this character invented by Alain Badiou questions the habits of a world changed by information overload.

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Ahmed's comeback

71st edition // Childhood at work - Robin Renucci and Nicolas Stavy

Robin Renucci and Nicolas Stavy delve with music and through the body into the texts and lives of authors who, from childhood to adulthood, described how their artistic vocations first appeared.

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Childhood at work

70th edition // Prometheus Bound - Olivier Py

For giving fire and the arts to mankind, Prometheus is the incarnation of disobedience. Fundamentally political, this play gives, according to Olivier Py, a “lesson in insurrection.”

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Prometheus Bound

69th édition // Ubu - Olivier Martin-Salvan

Olivier Martin-Salvan went on a tour of Avignon with his adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu. In this play, the murders and wars caused by Father Ubu are transposed to the world of aerobics, where physical exertion becomes a way to dumb everyone down.

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Ubu

68th édition // Othello, variation for three actors - Nathalie Garraud

Created for the Festival d’Avignon, this variation on Shakespeare’s masterpiece was a resounding success. Its aim? To question the political and ideological construct that is the figure of the foreigner in Europe, through a distant historical situation.

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Othello, variation for three actors