Productions

By Heart, Tiago Rodrigues, 2023 © Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Festival productions

In addition to its work as a co-producer, the Festival d’Avignon produces its own shows, working as an executive producer for some of them. In that regard, the Festival is responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the production, serving as the employer of all artists, collaborators, and technicians working on the show. It also makes its Avignon workshops available for set building. Moreover, it also serves as a tour manager in France and abroad.

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Directed by Milo Rau
Creation 2025

Drawing from the family histories of young artists, Milo Rau explores the events that alter the course of a life, and creates a performance that doubles as a manifesto on what popular theatre can be today.

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Next tour dates:

  • 20 - 23 August 2025 : Éclat – Centre national des arts de la rue et de l’espace public, Aurillac, France

  • 1 - 3 October 2025 : Théâtre du Point du Jour, Lyon, France

  • 21 and 22 November 2025 : Théâtre des Halles, Sierre, Suisse

  • 23 January 2026 : Scène 55 – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art & Création, Mougins, France

  • 28 - 31 January 2026 : Théâtre Silvia Monfort, Paris, France

  • 20 - 22 March 2026 : Théâtre de la Manufacture – Centre dramatique national Nancy Lorraine, France

  • 20 - 30 May 2026 : Théâtre Public de Montreuil – Centre dramatique national, France

Text and direction Tiago Rodrigues
Creation 2025

In 2077, the people of Earth live in the grip of economic precariousness and climate change. In this world in turmoil, Tiago Rodrigues questions the possibility of communication between a father and his daughter, who left Earth to go live on Mars. 

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Next tour dates:

  • 10 and 11 September 2025: Divadlo International Theatre Festival, Plzeň, Czech Republic

  • 17 and 18 September 2025: Plovdiv Drama Theatre, Bulgaria

  • 1–3 October 2025: Malakoff Scène nationale – Théâtre 71, France

  • 10 and 11 October 2025: De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium

  • 15–17 October 2025: Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg Scène européenne, France

  • 22–24 October 2025: Teatro Stabile di Napoli, Italy

  • 5–7 November 2025: La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Scène nationale, France

  • 13–23 November 2025: Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Switzerland

  • 26 and 27 November 2025: MC2 Grenoble, France

  • 1 December 2025: Équinoxe – Scène nationale de Châteauroux, France

  • 15–18 January 2026: Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid, Spain

  • 21–25 January 2026: Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, Spain

  • 29 and 30 January 2026: Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque, France

  • 3 and 4 February 2026: Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre, France

  • 7–10 May 2026: Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece

  • 15 and 16 May 2026: Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Milan, Italy

  • 21 and 22 May 2026: Théâtre de Grasse – Nationally contracted venue for Art & Creation, France

  • 27 and 28 May 2026: Scènes et Cinés – Nationally contracted venue for Art in the Territory, Istres, France

  • 2 and 3 June 2026: Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune, Aix-en-Provence, France

  • June 2026 – Dates to be confirmed: Malta Festival, Poznan, Polan

Directed by Mariano Pensotti
Creation 2024

In the same way that one climbs a mountain, humans come to face the meaning of their existence in stages. When a high-level mountaineer meets his silver-screen counterpart, reality and fiction collide. 

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Next tour dates :

  • 6 September 2025: Festival La Grande Balade, France

  • 12 and 13 September 2025: Seuls en Scène, Princeton French Theater Festival, United States

  • 22 and 23 November 2025: Théâtre de La Fleuriaye, Carquefou, France

  • 25 November 2025: Quai des Arts, Pornichet, France

  • 26 November 2025: Carré d'Argent, Pont-Château, France

  • 27 November 2025: Le Canal Théâtre, Redon, France

  • 28 November 2025: Le Cargo, Segré-en-Anjou-Bleu, France

  • 29 November 2025: La Soufflerie – Nationally contracted venue, Rezé, France

  • 2 December 2025: Le Pont des arts, Cesson-Sévigné, France

  • 3 and 4 December 2025: Théâtre du Champ au Roy, Guingamp, France

  • 7–23 January 2026: La Comédie de Valence, National Drama Centre Drôme – Ardèche, France

  • 27 and 28 January 2026: Hexagone Scène nationale, Meylan, France

  • 29 and 30 January 2026: TDB Théâtre du Briançonnais, France

Written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues
A 2020 production

What is a fascist? Is there a place for violence in the struggle for a better world? Can we violate the rules of democracy when we seek better ways to defend it?

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Next tour dates:

  • 25–27 September 2025: Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium

  • 9 and 10 October 2025: Vilnius International Theatre Festival SIRENOS, Lithuania

  • 6 and 7 January 2026: Teatro Circo, Braga, Portugal

  • 12–17 January 2026: Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Written, directed and performed by Tiago Rodrigues
Creation 2013

Going blind, Tiago Rodrigues’s grandmother looks for a final book to learn by heart. So was born By Heart, this essential show.

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Next tour dates :

  • 8 and 10 October 2025: Vilnius International Theatre Festival SIRENOS, Lithuania

  • 14 and 15 October 2025: Battlefield Arts Center, London, United Kingdom

  • 16 October 2025: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton, United Kingdom

  • 24 and 25 October 2025: UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Los Angeles, United States

  • 28 and 29 October 2025: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States

  • 3 and 4 November 2025: L'Alliance New York – French Cultural Center, New York, United States

  • 21–24 January 2026: Points communs – Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d'Oise, France

  • 27–31 January 2026: Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France

  • 11 and 12 May 2026: Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece

  • 14–16 May 2026: Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Milan, Italy

  • 23 May 2026: Scène 55 – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art & Création, Mougins, France

Written and directed by Tim Etchells
A 2023 production

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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Next tour dates:

  • 24 July to 1 August 2025: CCAS Holiday Villages, France

  • 19 to 22 May 2026: Olympia National Drama Centre of Tours, France

LA LETTRE, directed by Milo Rau (Pièce Commune / Volksstück, 2025)

La Distance, written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues (2025)

Une Ombre vorace, written and directed by Mariano Pensotti (Pièce Commune / Volksstück, 2024)

On ne fait jamais relâche, Tribute to Alain Crombecque, curator Antoine de Baecque (2024)

By Heart, written, directed and performed by Tiago Rodrigues (2013)

Catarina and the beauty of killing fascists, written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues (2020)

L'Addition, written and directed by Tim Etchells (Pièce Commune / Volksstück, 2023)

Shared Landscape, 7 pieces between fields and forests, design and curation Caroline Barneaud et Stefan Kaegi (2023)

L'œil présent, exhibition by Christophe Raynaud de Lage (2022-2023)

My Exalted youth, written and directed by Olivier Py (2022)

The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov, directed by Tiago Rodrigues (2021)

FRATERNITY, A fantastic tale, written and directed by Caroline Guiela Nguyen (2021)

Hamlet in the imperative !, based on William Shakespeare, directed by Olivier Py (2021)

Endless Andromaque, by Jean Racine directed by Gwenaël Morin

Love Triumphant, written and directed by Olivier Py (2019)

The Odyssey, by Homer, created by Blandine Savetier (2019)

Friendship, directed by Irène Bonnaud (2019)

Macbeth philosopher, by William Shakespeare, created by Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet with the Centre pénitentiaire Avignon-Le Pontet (2019)

Pure Present, written and directed by Olivier Py (2018)

Ladies, Gentlemen and the reste of the world, created by David Bobée (2018)

Antigone, by Sophocles, created by Olivier Py with the Centre pénitentiaire Avignon-Le Pontet (2018)

A Lad’s Word, by Nadjette Boughalem with the Maison Pour Tous Champfleury (2018)

The Parisians, written and directed by Olivier Py (2017)

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, created by Olivier Py with the Centre pénitentiaire Avignon-Le Pontet (2017)

We’ll have everything, created by Christiane Taubira and Anne-Laure Liégeois (2017)

Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, translated and directed by Olivier Py (2016)

Straight to the Heart, choreography by Thierry Thieû Niang (2016)

The Sky, the Night, and the Glorious Stone, created by La Piccola Familia (2016)

King Lear, by William Shakespeare, translated and directed by  Olivier Py (2015)

Plato’s Republic, adaptated by Alain Badiou, read by Valérie Dréville, Didier Galas, Grégoire Ingold (2015)

The Prince of Homburg, by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti (2014)

Orlando or Impatience, written and directed by Olivier Py (2014)

The Girl, the Devil and the Mill, based on the brothers Grimm, written and directed by Olivier Py (2014)

Cour d'honneur, directed by Jérôme Bel (2013)

Walk about the Villages, written by Peter Handke, directed by Stanislas Nordey (2013)

Ultimate track, directed by Séverine Chavrier (2012)

At Least I Will Have Left a Beautiful Corpse, based on William Shakespeare, directed by Vincent Macaigne (2011)

Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, directed by Frédéric Fisbach (2011)

My Secret Garden, written by Falk Richter and Stanislas Nordey (2010)

The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, directed by Jean-Baptiste Sastre (2010)

Papperlapapp, directed by Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock (2010)

Angelo, the Tyrant of Padua, by Victor Hugo, directed by Christophe Honoré (2009)

The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, directed by Amos Gitai (2009)

Break of Noon, by Paul Claudel, directed by Gaël Baron, Nicolas Bouchaud, Charlotte Clamens, Valérie Dréville, and Jean-François Sivadier (2008)

The Silence of the Communists, by Vittorio Foa, Miriam Mafai, and Alfredo Reichlin, directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent (2007)

Cruda, vuelta y vuelta, al punto, chamuscada, directed by Rodrigo García (2007)

Paso Doble, directed by Miquel Barceló and Josef Nadj (2006)

Léa Dony, Head of Production and Booking

Anne-Mathilde Di Tomaso, Director of Production

The Festival production department

The Festival d’Avignon is recognised for its capacity to produce and co-produce shows, thus helping companies finalise their production budgets and setting up tours. It supports the creation of new projects and helps companies in their dealings with co-producers, but also with local, national, and international authorities. The Festival d'Avignon's production department works closely with international teams to ensure that many of its productions are presented in their original language, with surtitles in French and English, and that the translations and surtitles are of the highest quality, often commissioned specially for each edition.

Every year, the Festival co-produces over half the shows of its programme. It can also lend material support thanks to LaFabricA and its workshops. Several residencies take place there over the winter and spring, some of which also include set building or engineering help to find technical solutions to artistic wishes. La FabricA welcomes artists for a total of over one hundred days of residencies every year.

La FabricA : A place for residencies, creation and artistic actions