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 bring you this new edition of the festival in partnership with Festival d’Avignon.
Bon Festival à toutes et tous!
Individual Festival Show Programs
- Program for L’Addition — Sept. 13-14 at 8 PM
- Program for Choeur des amants — Sept. 14-15 at 5 PM
- Program for Cahier d’un retour au pays natal — Sept. 18 at 8 PM
- Program for Euphrate — Sept. 20 at 6 PM; Sept. 21 at 5 PM
- Program for Radio Live — Sept. 20-21 at 8 PM
- Program for Voyage of the Sable Venus — Sept. 21 at 2:30 PM
- Program for Clôture de l’amour — Sept. 22 at 5 PM
Sponsorship
The French Theater Festival is sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, L’Avant-Scène, Department of French and Italian, Provost Office, Humanities Council, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Study (PIIRS), Departments of Art and Archaeology, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies, Program in European Politics and Society, Centre d’Excellence, Villa Albertine, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and Rockefeller College. With support from Festival d’Avignon, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Albertine Foundation and Institut français.
Seuls en Scène 2024 Production
Directed and Curated by Florent Masse
Assisted by Mathilde Gamon
Stage Management: Andrea Cibelli
Production, Technical Direction and Supervision: Chloe Brown, Matt Pilsner, Darryl Waskow, Nick Robinson, Lucien Dowdell, Tim Godin, Torrey Drum, Kay Richardson, and Miriam Patterson
Administration: Sena Hill, Kelly Eggers and Charles Leonardi
Communications: Steve Runk, Jaclyn Sweet, Tracy Patterson, Jonathan Sweeney, Zohar Lavi-Hasson, Shuquin Windbush, and Luke Soucy
Logistics and Community Support: Corine Caffort, Anne Hoppenot, Hervé Hoppenot, Maryam Simon, Emmanuel Simon, Sophie Orloff, Isabelle Lambotte, Giovanni Caforio and Martha Toma
Special Thanks
With gratitude and thanks to Göran Blix, Judith Hamera, Sena Hill, Marion Young, Jennifer Rexford, Rick Myers, Starry Schor, Kathy Crown, Deborah Yashar, Thomas Hare, Nathan Arrington, Jennifer Loessy, Tera Hunter, Dionne Worthy, Harold James, Mohamed Bouabdallah, Judith Roze, Diane Josse, Louise Dodet, Jean-Christophe Drissart, Francesca Corona, Gaëlle Massicot Bitty,Tiago Rodrigues, Pierre Gendronneau, Laurence Marie, Adama Diop, Alice Diop, Aurélie Charon, Mathild Gamon, Pascal Rambert, Pauline Roussille, Stanislas Nordey, Audrey Bonnet and Hortense Archambault.
With special thanks to Kelly Eggers, Corine Caffort, Anne et Hervé Hopennot, Maryam et Emmanuel Simon, Sophie Orloff and John Leger, Isabelle Lambotte and Giovani Caforio, Martha Toma, Noum Devlaminck, Kerry Heinmann, and The Charter School of Princeton.
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information, see the websites of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP), Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
View a list of LCA faculty & guest artists
For a look at all the people working behind the scenes to bring you this event, view a list of LCA staff.
The programs of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are made possible through the generous support of many alumni and other donors. View a list of LCA Supporters
Department of French & Italian
Chair: Göran Blix
Associate Chair: Pietro Frassica
Director, L’Avant Scene: Florent Masse
