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At one time or another, we all have a little tune that runs through our heads. In German, there's even a rather colourful word to describe the phenomenon: Ohrwurm, ‘ear worm’. Fortunately, researchers at Reading University in England have discovered that you can get rid of them by chewing gum.

To open Fest'hiver 2025 with Les Scènes d'Avignon, the Festival is delighted to welcome its executive production, which is stopping off at La FabricA as part of its international tour.

Following the performance on Sunday 19 January 2025 of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists.

Free, booking required, subject to availability.
At La FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon

Congratulations to Lola Arias on winning the prestigious International Isben Award 2024! Following her acclaimed performance at the 78th Festival d'Avignon with Los días afuera, the Argentine writer, director and producer continues to shine.

The International Ibsen Award ceremony will take place at Nationaltheatret in Oslo (Norway) October 13th.

Christmas is just around the corner! Why not put a gift card under the tree?
Treat your loved ones! Spoil them with an original gift with the Festival d'Avignon Gift Card. This card can be used from the date of purchase on all shows, discount cards and products in the online shop.

Want to see several shows in 2025?
Passes allow you to benefit from reduced rates. Without a pass, the single price applies.

▶ valid for all your orders in 2025 (from 1 January to 31 December 2025)
▶ valid for all shows
▶ 5% discount on the shop and bookshop
▶ individual and dematerialised

A true intimate and artistic portrait of Alain Crombecque, this retrospective presents many never-seen-before documents around the late director of the Festival d’Avignon (1985-1992) and the Festival d’Automne (1974-1978 and 1993-2009), which show his artistic friendships, from Peter Brook to Tadeusz Kantor and Antoine Vitez. 

The exhibition runs at the Maison Jean Vilar from Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm to 6pm, until 29 March 2025. Tickets on sale from €3 to €6.

Le Tipi (La FabricA's neighbouring urban farm) and Bassline Party are transforming La FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon into a huge dancefloor to close their summer season.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the 78-year history of the Festival d'Avignon at two emblematic venues: the Cour d'honneur in the Palais des papes and La FabricA. Immerse yourself in the world of the Festival, with its festivities and shows!

With Clément Demontis, tour guide

Join the party with the Big Up Cie! Costumes, masks, puppets, a shared meal, face painting, card draws and giant karaoke await you. Come and create happy memories, dance, sing and celebrate together a unique evening full of laughter and creativity! Admission is free, subject to availability.

The 7th edition of C'est pas du luxe! takes place from 27 to 29 September 2024.

The Festival d'Avignon will be present from 12 to 15 September at the Seuls en Scène festival at Princeton University, in New Jersey, United States, which has been inviting French theatre artists every year for the last 12 years. This 2024 edition marks the start of a partnership with the Festival d'Avignon that runs until 2026.

Did you come to Avignon during the Festival?

Take part in a survey on transport and parking during the Festival d'Avignon. By answering this survey, you will help us to identify practical and ecological transport solutions that could be put in place during future editions of the Festival. Answers are completely anonymous.

The Festival d'Avignon is delighted to welcome the season opener of the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence to La FabricA!

A festive evening kicking off at 6pm with a dance performance by the Pockemon Crew on the forecourt with young people from the Monclar neighbourhood, followed by a symphony concert under the musical direction of Débora Waldman. Snacks available on site.

Have you fallen in love with a music from a show, but can't remember the title?Relive the Festival with our 78th edition playlist to get your summer on !

Available on Spotify and Deezer.

Did you attend one or more shows at this 78th Festival? We want to find out how you experience the Festival through an audience survey. Since 1995, the Festival d'Avignon's audience has been the subject of a vast research programme, in partnership with Avignon Université and Inseac. The data collected is anonymous.

➡️ The collaborating artist will be choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, who will open the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des papes in July 2025.

➡️ Arabic will be featured as a guest language.

➡️ The Pièce commune - Volksstück project, in partnership with the Wiener Festwochen, will be directed by Milo Rau. The show will be touring the communes of Avignon and the surrounding area.

➡️ Gwenaël Morin will be continuing his project Démonter les remparts pour finir le pont in conjunction with the region. Following on from Le Songe and Quichotte, he will be presenting a new play linked to the guest language.

In the Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes, on Thursday night from 00:30 until dawn.

A night of unity, a night of mobilization, a popular night to counter the supposed inevitability of a far-right victory.

When the world is even more troubled than usual, where do we find the hope and strength that motivate us to organise this artistic and civic celebration? At a time where democracy is under threat, why is it important to participate in the Festival d’Avignon and meet artists from all over France and the world?

June 29 to July 21, 11am to 8:30pm
Place de l'Horloge, Avignon

Find original objects, posters, t-shirts, the official Festival vintage, and a ticketing area. Numerous souvenir gifts from an eco-responsible collection in the colors of the Festival and the 78th edition await you in the heart of the town.

> Saint-Louis Cloister ticket office
Every day, 10am to 7pm

> Telephone +33 (0)4 90 14 14 14
Every day, 10am to 7pm

> Website and mobile application
Every day, 24 hours a day

> All Fnac shops and on fnac-spectacles.fr

Guest column by Tiago Rodrigues, director of the Festival d'Avignon and Boris Charmatz, choreographer and director of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina-Bausch and Terrain.

Tickets are regularly on sale until July online, by phone and at the Cloître Saint-Louis box office.

> Save the date! New ticket sales on 8 and 22 June on the Festival website and mobile application.
Download our application and activate notifications to receive alerts of new ticket sales.

230 young musicians from the Démos project and the Maîtrise Populaire de l'Opéra Grand Avignon will be celebrating their work with an event concert on the stage of the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais des papes. This represents 3 years of free classical music workshops. Accompanied by professional artists from the Maîtrise and the Chœur de l'Opéra Grand Avignon and the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence, nearly 400 musicians will play and sing musical compositions by Matteo Franceschini, Mozart, Prokofiev and Britten.

The Southern Region is introducing additional TER services. This year, for the duration of the Festival, TER timetables from Avignon Centre station have been extended to 11.30pm for three train destinations (Orange, Cavaillon, Arles) and one bus destination (Carpentras). These trains serve 15 communes in the Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône departments.

To encourage spectators to use soft mobility, the Festival d'Avignon has set up a car-sharing scheme in partnership with the Covoiturage simple platform.

You can view or post an advert directly from the show page in the ‘practical information’ section.

The programme is online on our website. You can browse the programme by date, by period (by entering your arrival and departure dates), by category (theatre, dance, music, indiscipline...) or by artist. All entries are possible! A category distinguishes between shows accessible to English-speaking audiences.

The Festival d'Avignon is developing Artistic and Cultural Education programmes in partnership with local schools. For three evenings, secondary school students will share the stage at La FabricA to present their workshops from throughout the year!

Watch Tiago Rodrigues' presentation of the programme live from La FabricA at the Festival d'Avignon.

The Festival d'Avignon is looking for extras for Angélica Liddell's DÄMON - El funeral de Bergman, opening this summer in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des papes.

Casting on April 26 and 27 in Avignon.

The Festival d'Avignon is looking for participants for CERCLES by Boris Charmatz at the Stade de Bagatelle

> Participants aged 16 and over

A project by the Festival d'Avignon, the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès and Mathilde Monnier

Transmission Impossible is an immersion, exchange, and research project for young artists and performing arts students taking place within the Festival d’Avignon.

Micheline Attoun passed away on March 14 at the age of 87. A leading figure in the world of theater, she devoted her life to promoting arts and culture alongside her late husband Lucien Attoun. They leave behind them the legacy of Théâtre Ouvert.

The Festival d'Avignon is paying tribute to two immense figures in the world of theatre who recently passed away, two artists who embodied the circulation of aesthetics and European collaboration: René Pollesch and Edward Bond.

Registration opens on 1 March!

Are you aged between 11 and 25? Would you like to discover the Festival in a different way? Then become a Young Culture Reporter! Immerse yourself in the Festival, learn how to make films about our shows and meet the artists like real journalists.
To register, send an e-mail to projet@festival-avignon.com

Since 2021, we've had the pleasure of welcoming more than 550 young people to explore behind-the-scenes technical professions during discovery workshops at La FabricA. These introductory workshops give hands-on experience of the behind-the-scenes trades (machinery, lighting, video, sound and costumes), accompanied by stage managers. Here's a look back at these moments of sharing and learning.

Jorge Lavelli, the Franco-Argentinian director, died on 9 October 2023 at the age of 90. Founding director of the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris from 1987 to 1996, he was one of the leading figures in contemporary theatre. He presented plays at the Festival d'Avignon from 1969 to 1993, and his texts were read there until 2018.

For its 78th edition, to be held from 29 June to 21 July 2024, the Festival d'Avignon is currently recruiting for various positions within its different departments.

A call for tenders is also open for the vehicle rental contract.

A customer orders a drink and all hell breaks loose. With this scene, rehearsed endlessly by performers Bert & Nasi, British director Tim Etchells presents us with a hefty bill. Nightmare or comedy?

Produced by the Festival d'Avignon and unveiled this summer, L'Addition was performed in 14 towns in the Vaucluse, Gard and Bouches-du-Rhône departments, attracting over 2,000 spectators. The tour resumes this season, starting in Mérindol on 7 October 2023.

Tickets are available.

The Orchestre national Avignon Provence is launching its season with a festive evening entitled Tourbillons, at La FabricA at the Festival d'Avignon. Programme: Sophie Gail : Ouverture les deux jaloux, Camille Saint-Saëns : Concerto pour piano n° 2 : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Starting at 6.45pm, with musical entertainment, followed by the concert at 8pm and a convivial drink with the audience afterwards.
Refreshments and food will be available on site. Free for under-18s.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process at the Festival d'Avignon. Discover a legendary festival of the performing arts through its iconic venues: the Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes and La FabricA. With Clément Demontis, a guide with a passion for history, visitors can go behind the scenes of these venues, which illustrate 77 years of history, theatre and festivities in Avignon.

The shows presented during the 77th edition are on tour in France and abroad. If you have not been able to see them, if you would like to recommend them or see them again... In December and January: L'Addition, A Noiva e o Boa Noite Cinderela, Antigone in the Amazon, Écrire sa vie, Extinction, Le Jardin des délices, Le Songe, The Romeo, Welfare...

Discover the programme for the 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon

This Tuesday, July 25, the direction of the Festival, Tiago Rodrigues and Pierre Gendronneau made a return on the 77th edition. The recording video is online!

Did you attend one or more shows at this 77th Festival? We want to find out how you experience the Festival through an audience survey. Since 1995, the Festival d'Avignon's audience has been the subject of a vast research programme, in partnership with Avignon Université and Inseac. The data collected is anonymous.

The 77th edition draws to a close! Here's a look back at the 44 shows in the programme! See you from 29 June to 21 July 2024.

The full programme for the 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon "Tout le Festival" is now available!

Tickets now on sale for the reading of Mothers. A song for Wartime by Marta Górnicka
On July 23rd in the cour du musée Calvet

A project and a play in which hope and love transcend human cruelty. Testimonies from Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish women and children who have fled war and persecution.

The Festival d'Avignon is putting in place a number of initiatives to ensure that its events are accessible to all. Click here to access all our accessibility services

For information and bookings, please contact: accessibilite@festival-avignon.com

Click on "Read more" to access all the information on accessibility about the 77th edition.

The Festival d'Avignon announces the scheduling of 9 performances of Tiago Rodrigues' Dans la mesure de l'impossible following the cancellation of performances of Krystian Lupa's Les Émigrants.

Spectators in possession of tickets for Les Emigrants will be able to exchange their tickets for Dans la mesure de l'impossible or request a refund from Wednesday 14 June 2023.

The Festival d'Avignon website lists all the means of transport available to get to the city of Avignon. An interactive map shows all the Festival venues, car parks and self-service bicycle stations. We encourage you to use soft and/or collective means of transport.

Maps of venues accessible to people with reduced mobility indicate specific access points and car parks to optimise your arrival.

Hot weather: don't forget your water bottle. You can find a list of drinking water fountains on the Avignon City website.

Tickets for the Territoires Cinematographic Territories go on sale.

Spaces for dialogue between live performance and cinema, created with the Utopia cinemas in Avignon. A daily programme of screenings and encounters between audiences and artists. A programme for all ages to take a closer look at the themes presented on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

The performances of Les Émigrants by Krystian Lupa from 14 to 22 July at Opéra Grand Avignon have been cancelled. Spectators in possession of tickets for 'The Emigrants' will be informed as soon as possible of the arrangements for refunds or exchanges for other shows.

The Festival d'Avignon and the Cité scolaire Frédéric Mistral are pleased to invite you to performances by students in the speciality and theatre option on Tuesday 16 May at 6pm at 11, Avignon (11 boulevard Raspail, 84000 Avignon). These performances are open to all and free entry.

From April 29, meet from 1 to 7p.m. from Wednesday to Saturday at cloître Saint-Louis to buy your tickets at the box office.
Online, tickets are regularly put on sale. Do not hesitate to consult the category "available places".

For one weekend, on 13 and 14 May, the Festival d'Avignon is offering high school students the opportunity to prepare for the French Baccalaureate oral exam and to become aware of the texts of the great theatrical figures. Participate in person at La FabricA or live on Instagram in various workshops led by professional actors.

Sunday 14 May will be dedicated to reading in English. This is the opportunity to practice your voice in the language of Shakespeare!

Register for free at the following address: projet@festival-avignon.com

Watch Tiago Rodrigues' presentation of the programme live from La FabricA at the Festival d'Avignon.

New this year! You can support the Festival by joining Le Cercle des mécènes directly online.
Through your donations and commitment, you will help make the Festival a place of creation and inspiration.

The programme is online on our website. You can browse the programme by date, by period (by entering your arrival and departure dates), by category (theatre, dance, music, indiscipline...) or by artist. All entries are possible!

Since 1 September, 2022, Tiago Rodrigues is the new director of the Festival d'Avignon. By interpreting the historical score of the Festival, he wishes to transform this city-theater into a "luminous café for Europe", where the world celebrates, debates and questions itself. For his first public speech as director, Tiago Rodrigues met more than 500 people at La FabricA.

Watch the encounter

Are you a person with a disability looking for a job in culture?

Come to La FabricA on 3 March to take part in the 2nd meeting for the employment of people with disabilities in culture.

Registration via the form below.

Event organised by Audiens and its partners in collaboration with the Avignon Festival.

New this year! We are bringing forward the dates for recruitment campaign for seasonal jobs to Wednesday 1 March 2023. Applications for seasonal jobs can be submitted via a form on the Festival website.

The director and board of the Festival d'Avignon hereby announce that Pierre Gendronneau is joining the staff of the Festival as deputy director, starting on 9 February 2023.

We are expecting him in July for the 77th edition!

The Festival d'Avignon joins Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in calling for the release of French-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who has been held in Kabul since early January. #FreeMortaza

This Monday 6 March, take to Twitter to join the campaign to free Mortaza Behboudi by sharing the hashtag #FreeMortaza

Since the beginning of the school year in September, 25 students from the Première and Terminale in the theatre speciality have been working with the artists Georgia Doll and Cyril Cotinaut on Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de Satin and the ancient theatre with the figure of Antigone. They present a restitution of this artistic teaching initiated by the teachers Sonia Bresson and Géraldine Tellène, in partnership with the Festival d'Avignon, at 11 - Avignon. A time of exchange with the teams and the students is proposed at the end of the performance.

François Tanguy has just left us. Early, too early, of course. The Festival d'Avignon joins in the grief of his family and all his fellow travellers on the "theatre" raft, composed of actresses and painters, authors and composers, technicians and spectators in whom he had absolute confidence... That was in 1982. Three years later, the team moved to Le Mans, the hometown of actress Laurence Chable, the soul of the troupe. It was at La Fonderie that François Tanguy's creations were born. Without establishing a calendar, nor yielding to production imperatives, "it is art that is at stake here and not communication, playful curiosity and not entertainment". An art of theatre claimed as such, of a theatre where one must "be together" to visit the place and the theatrical time. Each work by François Tanguy and the Théâtre du Radeau is the fruit of a patient and collective process, made up of research into texts, music and improvisation, which explains the rarity of the creations. He presented Ricercar in 2008 at the Festival d'Avignon.

Since the beginning of the school year, the Festival d'Avignon has been a partner of the Lycée Frédéric Mistral and coordinates the artistic intervention programme for the specialised and optional theatre courses, commonly known as the Bac Theatre ! A year teeming with incredible works of contemporary and ancient theatre: Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin, Shakespeare's Richard III, Joël Pommerat's Cendrillon...

As part of the development of educational rhythms, the Festival d'Avignon organises theatre performances for children and teenagers in order to familiarise them with the performing arts and to create a quality of listening and sharing, particularly during the meetings after the shows. From 14 to 18 November at La Fabrica. For more info, contact projet@festival-avignon.com

Several job and interships offers are currently online for the next edition of the Festival d'Avignon : technical services, production, communication, administration, partnerships... Don't hesitate to apply !

The present eye is a sensory dive into the recent memory of the Festival d’Avignon: this exhibition as wandering by CHristophe Raynaud de Lage brings back seventeen years of collective emotions. To be seen or seen again at the Maison Jean Vilar until March 31st 2023! Catalogue available in various sales outlets.

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Festival d'Avignon opens the doors of La FabricA, its only permanent venue. During the guided tours, discover the history of the Festival through La FabricA with Clément Demontis, guide and lecturer passionate about history. Visitors will be able to discover the backstage of this place which illustrates 75 years of history, theatre and celebration in Avignon.

« Kharkiv became one of the Ukrainian cities that was hit by Russian bombs and missiles on 24 February, the day the war started. The people of Kharkiv are resisting all difficulties (...). Thanks to Kharkiv's foreign partner cities, especially Lille, we receive a lot of support. Thank you to all our foreign friends. I would like to tell you that art is one of the means of communication between peoples and that it forms a common cultural space.
We have much to share with others and much to learn.
I eagerly associate myself with the Appeal of the Mayors of Europe "From Sarajevo to Kyiv, 30 years of resistance to barbarism ». Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv

Several shows have been recorded live on television and then broadcast on our website and those of the channels concerned. Miss Knife and her sisters will be broadcast live on August 11 at midnight on France 3, then available for replay on Culturebox. You can find Kirill Serebrennikov's The Black Monk and Anne Théron's Iphigenia in the "audiovisual" section. Other audiovisual resources have been put online on the site throughout the Festival: extracts from the shows, recordings of the meetings and debates, videos of our young culture reporters...

The only French hostage in the world, Olivier Dubois has been kept prisoner in Mali since 8 April 2021. Show your support for this Lycée Mistral alumnus and long-time friend of the Festival by signing our petition.

This Saturday 24th July at 11am, the press conference for the 76th edition was held in the Cour du cloître Saint-Louis. Olivier Py wrote and read a letter for Tiago Rodrigues, future director of the Festival d'Avignon. The recording is online !

Ticketing tips: stay informed about the availability of tickets for the 76th edition online, by phone and at the ticketing office!

"There has never been a time in the past when we did not exist, there will never be a future when we cease to be" (Mahâbhârata). The international theatre, France and Avignon have lost a major figure in the dramatic art. After directing several plays in England for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Peter Brook founded in Paris in 1971 what was to become, when he moved to the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Centre international de créations théâtrales. (...)

During this 76th edition, let yourself be carried away by a long experience: Olivier Py will present My Exalted youth (10hours) from 8 to 15 July at the Gymnase du Lycée Aubanel and Simon Falguières will present his complete creation A Nest of Ashes (1h) at La FabricA du Festival d'Avignon. Possibility of catering on site. Places are still available!

A. Miliukova, married the composer P. Tchaikovsky. She agrees to endure everything to stay with him. After being presented at the Cannes Film Festival (Competition, official selection 2022), Kirill Serebrennikov's latest film will be screened on 13 July at 2pm at the Cinéma Utopia-Manutention as part of the Territoires Cinématographiques. Screening followed by a meeting with Kirill Serebrennikov, moderated by Oriane Jeancourt Galignani (Transfuge).

The shop on Place de l'Horloge, will be open from Tuesday to Saturday from 2pm to 7pm in June and every day from 11am to 8.30pm in July. The shop has been entirely redesigned with sustainable materials and offers products from responsible suppliers. Come and discover the tote bags, t-shirts, mugs and other products of the 76th edition!

You can now purchase your tickets online, by phone and at the Cloître Saint-Louis ticket office. Stay informed about available seats via the "Available seats" category on our website. To be notified when tickets are back on sale, download our Festival d'Avignon application.

Since Saturday 4 June at 2pm, the online ticketing is open. There are still tickets available and others will be back on sale in the next few days. Stay tuned!

This week, ticketing will open by phone (au + 33 (0)4 90 14 14 14) on June 7th at 2pm and at the cloître Saint-Louis ticket office on June 11th at 2pm. The Festival d'Avignon wishes to guarantee to everyone the best treatment of their order, and will distribute tickets to acces the ticket office on June 11th from 7am at the Cloître Saint-Louis, and keeps the possibility to stop the distribution in the morning. 

The Festival d'Avignon - a field of unlimited "subjects" - and the press train the new generation of journalists to the performing arts. We offer students of journalism schools or higher education a course composed by a training period and an internship in one of the media partners during the Festival. Registration until 4 June!

From now until the beginning of the Festival, the artists of the 76th edition will take over our Instagram page. (@festivaldavignon) Every day, an artist invites you backstage and gives you a privileged access to the preparation of the show that will be presented in July. An invitation to get closer to the artists, the companies and the rehearsals, for a day!

Be ready this Saturday from 2pm for the exceptional online pre-sale of 10,000 tickets! The general opening of sales will be on June 4 online, June 7 by phone and June 11 at the cloître Saint-Louis ticket office. Get ahead now by buying your Carte Festival or Carte 3 clés.

A new project to raise awareness about theatre, classic and founding texts by reading them aloud. This is the "Voix Haute" weekend which takes place at La FabricA and remotely on Instagram. Two days dedicated to reading Shakespeare and Rimbaud, supervised by professional actors and mediators!

The PDF programme of the 76th edition is now available. It includes all the shows, encoubnters, readings, screenings organized from 6 to 27 July, and all the pratical information. The printed version will be available at at the cloître Saint-Louis (Avignon) from 6 May.

The meeting will take place at Avignon University, Hannah Arendt campus (entrance 74, rue Louis Pasteur, south building, amphitheatre AT02).
Free admission, reservation recommended: 04 90 27 66 50 / public@festival-avignon.com

Are you used to collecting orders from your friends and taking all the tickets when the sales open? This year we are offering you a new possibility to be the ambassador of your group of friends via an internet booking channel open for you from 27 April to 11 May.

Every generation bears witness to the end of a world and the beginning of another. Between the two there is a mess, a cacophony, an unfinished theatre.

Browse the "by period" program to see the shows scheduled during your stay. Select the shows you are interested in with the "♥" button and create your agenda.

You can now buy your discount card (Festival card or 3 clés card). It will give you access to reduced rates for all the shows of the 76th edition and a 5% discount at the Place de l'Horloge shop, on the Internet and at the Festival bookshop.

This day is dedicated to hearing health at all ages. The Festival d'Avignon is committed to ensuring that people with hearing disabilities are not excluded by progressively developing adapted measures: accessible communication modes with Acceo, equipment of several theatres with sound reinforcement systems, presentation of the programme subtitled and in LSF....

We print, we cut, we glue and it's beautiful! Last Friday, students in the CAP Signalétique et décors graphiques, Métiers de l'enseigne et de la signétique and Bac Pro Communication visuelle installed a new signage system at La FabricA.

Les Hivernales and the Festival d'Avignon are presenting SOMNOLE by Boris Charmatz. He invites us to a moving celebration of intimacy, backed by the melodies he whistles while dancing. he offers the purity of a magnetic solo. The grace of a moment out of time!

We, the directors of cultural venues in France, express our solidarity with the Ukrainian people and artists. We are ready to mobilise in response to the emergency and the dangers faced by artists forced to flee the war, and to contribute to welcoming them in France so that they can continue their activity and preserve the free expression of Ukrainian culture.

Paper or digital? In the interests of eco-responsibility, we invite you to log in to your account or to create one on our website and decide on your communication preferences with the Festival (monthly newsletter, receipt of the programme...). Follow us on social networks too!

« I could take a bite off the sun
to stop the fire from dying inside me.
I could swallow a stormy sea
so that my anger will not ebb.
I would yield to all possibilities
if I could see you without restraint. »

In the Time of the Apricots, Carol Sansour, translation Youssef Rakha, Al Kotob Khan, Cairo, Egypt, 2019

Histoire(s) du Théâtre, ONE SONG. After Milo Rau, Faustin Linyekula and Angélica Liddell, Miet Warlop is the fourth artist to take up this challenge. Watch the video of the encounter

"FLESH", a creation by the company Still Life. Encounter with the directors Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola on Tuesday 7 December 2021 at 7.30 pm at La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon, as a prelude to the 76th edition! Watch the video of the encounter

Encouraged by the interest of our audiences in stage life, we have created "practical" initiations to the professions of stage machinery, lighting and set design. 2 weeks, 3 workshop formats, 300 participants.

The second meeting with an artist of the 2022 edition of the Festival d'Avignon will take place on Tuesday 23 November 2021 at 7.30 pm at La FabricA with Elise Vigier. She will introduce her creation "Anaïs Nin au miroir" by Agnès Desarthe which will be programmed for the 76th edition of the Avignon Festival.

Dans le cadre de l'aménagement des rythmes éducatifs, le Festival invite classes, groupes et partenaires du champ social et de l'accessibilité à assister gratuitement à ce spectacle qui aurait dû être présenté lors de la 74e édition du Festival d’Avignon en 2020.

The 75th edition of the Festival d'Avignon is over. Let's keep an eye on the companies' touring calendar!

Le Festival d'Avignon, l'INSEAC et Avignon Université mènent des études de public qui donnent l'occasion de poursuivre le dialogue avec l’ensemble des spectateurs et de dresser une première photographie des mois passés. Merci de prendre le temps de répondre aux questionnaires !

300 shows for 45 pieces in 38 venues, all in 21 days, the 75th edition ended on 25 July 2021. Find all the programme of the shows, encounters, screenings, and enjoy videos of the Festival on our website.

The play premiered at the 75th Avignon Festival last July. It marks the return to Princeton of Tiago Rodrigues, who presented By Heart at Seuls en Scène 2017.
The screening of this filmed performance is free and open to Princeton students, faculty and staff, on September 18, in the Wallace Theater.

The closing press conference of the 75th edition was held on Saturday 24 July at 11am in the Cour du cloître Saint-Louis. You can watch it online!

Following the announcements of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on July 12, 2021, we share with you new information concerning the implementation of the new sanitary protocol of the 75th edition from July 21: application of the sanitary pass to all the venues of the Avignon Festival.

We regret to inform you that three shows scheduled for the 75th edition have been cancelled: INK, The Sacrifice and Autophagies. Team members are affected by Covid-19 or contacts. Tickets will be automatically refunded.

We regret to announce that Edgar Morin's health will not allow him to travel and be present for the evening Remembering the Future, on 13 July in the Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes. He will be able to spend the evening with us with us through a video device and all the guests be with Nicolas Truong for this event.
Ticket holders who do not wish to attend this performance will be able to transfer their tickets to another show or receive a refund. Spectators with tickets who do not wish to attend this performance will have the opportunity to transfer their seats to another Festival show or to be refunded.

Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer de nouvelles propositions : nouveau spectacle, représentations supplémentaires, partenariat inédit avec le Festival de Cannes et hommage à Jean-Pierre Vincent... Rendez-vous en juillet !

For a month now, the artists of the 75th edition have been invited to publish freely on the Instagram account of the Festival d'Avignon. Each day, an artist invites you backstage and gives you a privileged access to the preparation of the show that will be presented in July. Discover the photos and videos on our page, and subscribe to follow the next ones!

The current health situation requires us to be extremely vigilant, and although we do not yet know the full protocol that will be in effect at the time of the Festival, we have been forced to reduce the number of seats available for sale by half, a reduction that we will pass on to all our audiences in an equitable manner.
Sales at the Saint-Louis Cloister ticket office: Tuesday to Saturday from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm in June, then every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm during the Festival.
Reservations for free entry events open on July 1.

On the occasion of this event, 4 events are organized (discussions, conference-debate, inauguration and walk). Discover the program! Registrations and reservations on unesco@mairie-avignon.com or 04 90 80 83 61

A new Cour d'honneur ! The 6th in the history of the Festival d'Avignon.
A very beautiful work composed of a primary structure, a new stage and a 1947-seat bleacher in a historic setting: the Palais des papes in Avignon. Months of design and construction !

Our teams invite you to a brand new hybrid and digital experience live from La FabricA. Shakespeare's and Molière's tirades will resound in La FabricA and on the networks this weekend. We can't wait to introduce you to this new format of activities!

Health measures in place at the time of the Festival will be strictly observed, in accordance with local and regional authorities. Our staff and ushers are there to help you and make sure to answer your requests as fast as possible. Please read our health measures for July.

« Immense tristesse. Quel homme délicieux, quelle présence, quelle douceur. L'œil des choses invisibles s'est fermé. L'oreille de la musique inattendue s'est envolée. L'âme qui agrandissait la nôtre n'est plus ; elle n'est plus, mais elle est quand même. Pour moi, pour nous, pour Avignon et Maria Callas. » Olivier Py

A new project with positive vibes for journalists students who are insterested in performing Arts ! We are happy to create the first journalistic residency at La FabricA, under the supervision of Antoine de Baecque, historian, film and theatre critic, and author with Emmanuelle Loyer of "Histoire du Festival d'Avignon".

The programme of the 75th edition is now available as a PDF. It includes all the shows, encoubnters, readings, screenings organized from 5 to 25 July, and all the pratical information. The printed version will be available at at the Cloître Saint-Louis (Avignon) from 19 May.

Each year, the Festival d'Avignon, the Ceméa and the Réseau Canopé offer to children and teenagers from Avignon the opportunity to discover the backstage of the Festival by taking on the role of a reporter. Several videos were made last week, about Hamlet and the installation of the new stage and tier set-up in the Cour d'honneur des Palais des papes.

The LG Arts Center in Seoul is launching Avignon Festival Cinema, a digital event that will run from April 28 to May 2 with screenings of shows from the Festival d'Avignon.

What if Culture wasn’t a search for lost time, but a search for future time? What if we could, through poetry and collective good will, change what was, and give it different consequences?

- Translation coming soon -
Théo Mercier is the artist of the artwork that appears on the poster of the 75th edition. Discover his interview.

Browse the "by period" program to see the shows scheduled during your stay.

You want to work at the Festival d'Avignon this summer ? Applications for seasonal jobs will be open Thursday 1st April at 9am on our website. The job descriptions (receptionist, multi-purpose employee, venue guard, waiter...) are downloadable here :

The Festival d'Avignon works with actors related to the educational and social field throughout the year.
A new newsletter is dedicated to them. It provides them the opportunity to learn about the projects ongoing, to register for collectives projets and to plan their time at the Festival.

Quelles sont les fonctions de l’obscène ? L’obscène convoqué au plateau est-il le reflet de celui présent dans la réalité ? L’obscène est l’un des deux thèmes de travail des classes préparatoires littéraires spécialité théâtre. Olivier Py a ainsi répondu à l’invitation du Lycée Mistral d’Avignon d’en disserter avec les élèves.
Rencontre ouverte à toutes les classes préparatoires qui peuvent nous suivre en ligne et échanger en direct avec Olivier Py.n direct de la FabricA du Festival d'Avignon. La rencontre intégrale est disponible en vidéo.

about the piece "ceux-qui-vont-contre-le-vent" to be presented at the 75th festival d'Avignon in July 2021.

Si l’école est le lieu où chaque jeune a l’occasion de découvrir le théâtre, c’est pour l’immense majorité par l’entremise d’un texte de Molière que cette rencontre se fait… Dans le cadre du 400e anniversaire de la naissance du dramaturge, l’ANRAT lance met à disposition des ressources en ligne, des temps de formation pour les enseignants, artistes, médiateurs et des outils ludiques et pédagogiques à destination des jeunes (et des moins jeunes).

Pour la première fois, Avignon Université participe à la Nuit de la lecture, un temps fort de la littérature en France. Un rallye d’écriture est organisé autour d’un thème tenu secret, qui sera dévoilé ce jeudi 21 janvier à 18h. Le Festival d’Avignon est partenaire, avec la participation des comédiens Enzo Verdet et Hélène July.

Nous nous sommes retrouvés ce samedi à nouveau lourds de notre incompréhension.
Nous qui sommes légalistes, qui respectons comme professionnels et comme citoyens scrupuleusement les consignes sanitaires que nous impose cette crise sans fin [...]

"Nous aurons à réapprendre à voir, à concevoir, à penser, à agir. Nous ne connaissons pas le chemin, mais nous savons que le chemin se fait dans la marche."
- Edgar Morin, Un nouveau commencement", éditions du Seuil.
Olivier Py, Paul Rondin et toute l’équipe du Festival d’Avignon vous souhaitent une belle année 2021.

C'est la suite d'une aventure inédite avec le Réseau Canopé qui vous donne rendez-vous pour un webinaire autour du Jeu des Ombres de Jean Bellorini.

Inscription sur le site de Canopé.

We are sorry to announce Melly Puaux's brutal death, on January 2, 2021 at Prat-Souteyran. With her husband Paul Puaux from 1971 to 1998, then until early-2000s, she harldy worked to spread out the memoryy of Jean Vilar and the Festival d'Avignon.

Dire l’alexandrin, 3 cours en ligne gratuits proposés par Festival Expérience où Olivier Py secondé de 4 comédiens s’aventure dans l’exercice.

Prenez part à ce moment et venez dire Hugo, Corneille, Racine, Verlaine.

Performances are still postponed for now, but keep an eye on tour schedules to know about upcoming events and online recordings by our partners.

The Semaine d’art came to an end on Thursday, 29 October. Exclusive photographs and extracts from some of the performances are available in our archives, along with full videos of all the debates and press conferences and the latest publication by the Agence national de la recherche. Don’t hesitate to dive into this intense week!

Depuis mars, vous avez très nombreux à nous écrire. Courrier manuscrit, courriel, posts... Vos témoignages nous font du bien et nous souhaitions rendre hommage à votre fidélité de festivaliers et à votre matière de nous donner aussi de l'espoir. Une histoire réciproque.
En avant cette lettre écrite par Léone Nogarède...

It is with heavy hearts that we have to report the passing of Jean-Pierre Vincent, administrator of the Festival d’Avignon for many years and above all a major voice for theatre and its history.
As director of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg, of Nanterre-Amandiers, and of the Comédie-Française, he presided over a hundred creations, including his direction of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, which played at the 73rd edition of the Festival d’Avignon in July 2019.

Ce mardi 10 novembre à 21h, rendez-vous sur la page Facebook du Théâtre de La Ville pour un live du spectacle Royan de Marie Ndiaye, mise en scène Frédéric Bélier-Garcia. Avec Nicole Garcia.

“Semaine d’art en Avignon” is a quote, a reference. It was the first name given in 1947 by Mayor Georges Pons and Jean Vilar to the event which would become the Festival d’Avignon. From 23 to 31 October, 2020, 7 shows will be performed in a dozen venues in Avignon and the surrounding area.

Following the measures taken by the defence and national security council on the 21st of October 2020 and announced by the Prime Minister today, especially a curfew at 9 p.m. enforced right from the end of the week in the departments of Vaucluse and Gard, the teams of the Festival d’Avignon are reorganising, in accordance with the sanitary rules, Une Semaine d’art en Avignon.

L’attentat qui a coûté la vie a Samuel Paty est une innommable barbarie. Défendons le modèle d’inclusion républicaine à la française et défendons notre idée de la démocratie dont l’école est la première pierre. En dépit de l’horreur et du deuil, il nous faut espérer.

Video available

Olivier Py, directeur, Paul Rondin, directeur délégué et toute l’équipe du Festival d’Avignon ont le plaisir de vous informer de la nouvelle composition du Conseil d’Administration de l’Association de gestion du Festival d’Avignon.

The printed programme of the Semaine d'art en Avignon is available. Here is a list of venues where you can find it from the beginning of October.

Ce 28 septembre, une rencontre publique sur l'urgence climatique organisée au Théâtre National à Bruxelles, sera diffusée simultanément sur les pages Facebook du Festival d'Avignon et des autres structures partenaires.

For all of us...

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