AVIGNON FOR EVER
Pascal Rambert / structure production
Avignon for Ever, the title rings out like a declaration of love and it is one — one that author and director Pascal Rambert made in Avignon and at its Festival. “I wrote this text on trains, at airports, in stations, on planes. When you can finally be quiet. […] And daydream a little. Dreaming a little about what you love. Here, Avignon and its Festival. I don’t know why I wanted to write a kind of love letter to Avignon and its Festival. Probably because the conditions of beauty and sorrow of the human condition, which are represented, are held for three weeks in this place.” It is Stanislas Nordey who will lend his voice to this luminous ode to the theatre.
Pascal Rambert, a celebrated French writer, choreographer and director for the stage and screen, received the “Grand prix de l’Académie Française pour l’ensemble de son oeuvre” or “Theater Prize from Académie Française for his entire body of work” in 2016. Rambert heads his own production company, structure production, and is an associate artist of Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze in Madrid and Théâtre National de Strasbourg in Strasbourg. From 2007 to 2016, he served as artistic director of T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers. He now travels the world to present his plays and to write and create new works for the artists he meets. His texts have been translated and adapted by many directors in France and abroad.
Rambert joined Princeton in the spring of 2019 as a Belknap Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and Visiting Lecturer in French and Italian.
Stanislas Nordey, a prolific actor and director and major French theater figure, has been the artistic director of Théâtre National de Strasbourg since 2014. Nordey is a long-time collaborator of Pascal Rambert in regards to acting. He recently performed in Rambert’s new production Architecture, created this year at the 73rd Avignon Festival.
Estimated running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes / In French
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