Oiseau

d’après le roman Impossibles adieux de Han Kang

  • Show
  • Reading
  • Performance

Han Kang , Julie Deliquet , Isabelle Huppert and Hyeyoung Lee

France – Republic of Korea / Created in 2026

Avertissement This reading-performance contains distressing content (massacre). 

At the Cour d’honneur, Julie Deliquet presents a staged reading of Han Kang’s Impossible Goodbyes, featuring Isabelle Huppert and Hyeyoung Lee. Two languages, two performers, one text.

Oiseau, Julie Deliquet © Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

Julie Deliquet presents a lecture-performance of the first chapter Oiseau d’Impossibles adieux, a novel in which the author and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Han Kang attempts, through fiction, to approach the tragedy of the Jeju uprising in the Republic of Korea.
One morning, Gyeongha receives a message from her friend Inseon, who lives on Jeju Island. Hospitalised on the mainland, she asks her to go to the island to feed the small white budgerigar she left at her home. Caught in a snowstorm, Gyeongha discovers upon her arrival how Inseon’s family history intertwines with one of the worst massacres in Korean history. Actresses Isabelle Huppert and Hyeyoung Lee give voice to this memorial text, revealing the recurring motifs that run through Han Kang’s work: the traumas of history, the fragility of being, an absolute belief in life…

Distribution

With Isabelle Huppert, Hyeyoung Lee
Text Han Kang
Reading direction and dramaturgy Julie Deliquet
Dramaturgy and artistic collaboration Annabelle Simon
Lighting Vyara Stefanova
Sound Lucas Lelièvre

Production

Production Festival d'Avignon
Performances in partnership with France Médias Monde

Korea Arts Management Service(KAMS) works to connect Korean artists and their creations with stages and audiences across the world, supporting the international circulation and global presence of Korean performing arts. 

 For its 80th edition, the Festival d’Avignon welcomes Korean as its guest language. Through performances, literature, and a constellation of artistic encounters, this programme offers an opportunity to share with audiences the vitality, imagination, and cultural depth of contemporary Korean arts.

This invitation has grown out of the longstanding exchange and collaboration between the Seoul Performing Arts Festival(SPAF), an annually held festival organized by KAMS, and the Festival d’Avignon. KAMS is proud and delighted to join this initiative as a main partner, introducing outstanding works representing Korea to Avignon after 28 years. On this occasion, the SPAF will continue to strengthen its collaboration with the Festival d'Avignon.    

 We hope that the openness, resilience, and artistic imagination carried by the Korean language will resonate with audiences around the world, creating new echoes and connections. May this collaboration open new paths for artistic encounters and dialogue between Korea and the international performing arts community.

KAMS website

Practical infos

Durée Duration : 1h30

This reading-performance contains distressing content (massacre). 

In French and Korean, with subtitles in French, English, and Korean

Last entry 15 minutes before the show.

Full Price Carte Festival Carte 3 clés
Price L – cat. 1 45 € 35 € 15 €
Price L – cat. 2 35 € 30 € 10 €

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