Europe-Méditerranée, paroles d’artistes / Wajdi Mouawad, Stanislas Nordey, Krzysztof Warlikowski
with Wajdi Mouawad, author and director Lebanese-Canadian,Stanislas Nordey, French actor and director, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Polish director
moderated by Arnaud Laporte
Listen to the Rencontres européennes in Avignon
The Festival d'Avignon decided to propose a three-way discussion, built on an artistic and human network.
Wajdi Mouawad, the Lebanese author and director who lives in Canada and very often works in France, suggested having an exchange with the European artists Krzysztof Warlikowski, the Polish director, and Stanislas Nordey,
the French actor and director. The most European of Polish artists, Krzysztof Warlikowski, has been working on the greatest theatre and opera stages for many years, revisiting the major texts of the repertory,but having recently decided to explore the Greek roots of tragedy and to take an interest in the African continent. He turned to the author Wajdi Mouawad to write the three monologues of his latest creation, African Tales after Shakespeare, after asking him to adapt A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Stanislas Nordey staged Wajdi Mouawad's Fires and also directed him as an actor in Camus' The Just Assassins, after having been Mouawad's interpreter in Skies, which premiered in 2009 at the Festival d'Avignon. Through there respective accounts on these various collaborations, a vision of European theatre could be outlined: does it exist? Is it aware of itself? This encounter will focus more broadly on how the theatre can question the world, and even change it.