Seuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as promising early-career artists, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work, introducing American audiences to dynamic and engaging French productions. We are thrilled to present this new edition of the festival in partnership with Festival d’Avignon.
Festival Runs September 12-22, 2024
For the 13th edition of the annual Seuls en Scène, join us for 10 days of in-person performances of recent works by renowned French and Francophone artists including Tiago Rodrigues, Tim Etchells, Adama Diop, Aurélie Charon, Amélie Bonnin, Audrey Bonnet, Pascal Rambert, and Stanislas Nordey, among others.
Festival Tickets and Details
Held in various venues on the Princeton University campus, all in-person performances will be free with advance registration required. More information will be available in late August including ticket registration.
Accessibility
Some of the performances will have translations available in English via supertitles. If you need other access accommodations, please contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu for assistance at least one week in advance of the event date.
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Festival Program
Program information will be available for each of the festival performances.
Sponsorship
The French Theater Festival is sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, L’Avant-Scène, Department of French and Italian, the Provost’s Office, Humanities Council, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Study (PIIRS), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Rockefeller College. International sponsors include Festival d’Avignon, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Cultural Services of the French Embassy – Villa Albertine, FACE Contemporary Theater, the Education Department of the French Embassy, and Institut français.
Seuls en Scène 2024 Festival Schedule
Conversation with Hortense Archambault and Tiago Rodrigues
Thursday, September 12, 2024 – 4:30 PM
As part of Seuls en Scène’s new partnership with Festival d’Avignon, a conversation with former Festival d’Avignon director Hortense Archambault and current director Tiago Rodrigues kicks off the festival.
L’Addition by Tim Etchells
Friday, September 13 — 8 PM
Saturday, September 14, 2024 – 8 PM
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.
Les paradoxes du comédien
Saturday, September 14, 2024 – 11 AM
Seuls en Scène 2024 celebrates the book launch of Les paradoxes du comédien by Laurence Marie, who has interviewed many past guest artists of the festival for her book project. Laurence Marie moderates a discussion with the performers of the festival’s first weekend and considers how Diderot’s Parodox of the Actor resonates in their craft today.
Le Choeur by Tiago Rodrigues
Saturday, September 14 — 5 PM
Sunday, September 15, 2024 – 5 PM
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/lovers give us, simultaneously, slightly diverging versions of the same story, celebrating love when everything else is put into question, and when we don’t know how to come to terms with normality.
Avignon Project 2025 featuring Tiago Rodrigues & Adama Diop
Sunday, September 15 – 3 PM
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.
A Reading/Performance of Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 – 8 PM
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.
Euphrate by Nil Bosca
Friday, September 20 – 6 PM
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – 5 PM
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!”
Radio Live by Aurélie Charon & Amélie Bonnin
Friday, September 20 — 8 PM
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – 8 PM
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.
Clôture de l’amour by Pascal Rambert
Sunday, September 22, 2024 – 5 PM
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.