As part of Seuls en Scène’s new partnership with Festival d’Avignon, a conversation (in French) with former Festival d’Avignon Director Hortense Archambault and current Director Tiago Rodrigues kicks off the festival. Conversation in French. No tickets required.
A bar customer orders a drink and things go awry. With this scene tirelessly repeated by performers Bert and Nasi, the bill turns out to be steep indeed. Are we in a nightmare or in a comedy? Come see the small-scale touring show of Festival d’Avignon 2023 that inaugurates our new partnership with Festival d’Avignon. Performed in French with English supertitles. Free tickets required.
Laurence Marie moderates a discussion with the performers of the French Theater Festival’s first weekend and considers how Diderot’s "Parodox of the Actor" resonates in their craft today. Conversation in French. No tickets required.
Tiago Rodrigues’ Chœur des amants is a lyric narrative of two lovers confronted with a life and death situation in which oxygen becomes scarce. The two actors celebrate love when everything else is put into question. Performed in French. Free tickets required.
A bar customer orders a drink and things go awry. With this scene tirelessly repeated by performers Bert and Nasi, the bill turns out to be steep indeed. Are we in a nightmare or in a comedy? Come see the small-scale touring show of Festival d’Avignon 2023 that inaugurates our new partnership with Festival d’Avignon. Performed in French with English supertitles. Free tickets required.
Exclusively for Seuls en Scène 2024, Tiago Rodrigues and Adama Diop invite you into their laboratory and discuss their upcoming new creation for Festival d’Avignon 2025. Conversation in French. No tickets required.
Tiago Rodrigues’ Chœur des amants is a lyric narrative of two lovers confronted with a life and death situation in which oxygen becomes scarce. The two actors celebrate love when everything else is put into question. Performed in French. Free tickets required.
French-Senegalese actor Adama Diop joins Seuls en Scène for the first time, accompanied by musicians, to present a reading-performance of Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece "Cahier d’un retour au pays natal." Performance in French. Free tickets required.
Daughter of a Turkish father and a Norman mother, Euphrate is a high school student in her final year who is struggling with the education system. In addition to her rather mediocre grades, she must soon also choose a career path: a real headache. Discover a hit of the 2023 fringe Avignon Festival, about which France Inter’s Le Masque et la plume says: "It's a little gem, it's truly magnificent!" Performed in French with English supertitles. Suitable for ages 12+. Free tickets required.
The uplifting show Radio Live returns to Seuls en Scène for the third time (after appearing in 2019 and 2022) with its new series, La relève, featuring a portrait of Sumeet Samos, a young activist hailing from New Delhi, India. Performed in English. Free tickets required.
A Black woman roams museums at night, searching in her dreams for the fragmented bodies of all the Black women who populate the margins of artworks throughout history. At Seuls en Scène, Alice Diop reads the text of Voyage of the Sable Venus, by Robin Coste Lewis, in a work-in-progress version of a performance scheduled to premiere at Festival d’Automne/MC93 Bobigny in Fall 2025. Reading/performance in French. No tickets required.
Daughter of a Turkish father and a Norman mother, Euphrate is a high school student in her final year who is struggling with the education system. In addition to her rather mediocre grades, she must soon also choose a career path: a real headache. Discover a hit of the 2023 fringe Avignon Festival, about which France Inter’s Le Masque et la plume says: "It's a little gem, it's truly magnificent!" Performed in French with English supertitles. Suitable for ages 12+. Free tickets required.
The uplifting show Radio Live returns to Seuls en Scène for the third time (after appearing in 2019 and 2022) with its new series, La relève, featuring a portrait of Sumeet Samos, a young activist hailing from New Delhi, India. Performed in English. Free tickets required.
This year’s repertory play at Seuls en Scène is Clôture de l’amour, Pascal Rambert’s masterwork first presented at the festival in 2016. It will feature its original cast: Audrey Bonnet and Stanislas Nordey. Don’t miss the single performance of the hit show of Festival d’Avignon 2011 that helped introduce Pascal Rambert to the world. Performed in French. Free tickets required.
