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Thursday, February 14, 2013

The theatre Festival in Avignon

As I often
say, there are 3 festivals in Avignon during the month of July.
In 2013 the festivals will take place 5th to the 26th of July for the "In" 8th to 31st for the "Off".

The "IN" Festival is the traditionnal one.A bit too intellectual to my taste but nice plays (also dance) and
famous actors.
The plus is the place where the shows are performed such as the Pope's Palace
insidecourtyard
info in English :

The "OFF" Festival is more my cup of tea.
Young actors, troups, performing in order to promote them. (The Off is
extremelly famous with Press and Theatre managers as they come to festival
"fishing" for their next year's programation)
The site usually start giving out information only around mid June.

The "Off" Festival of Avignon (on the top right of the page click on "EN" to get info in English (if it works...)Otherwise, once in Avignon, you can grab the paper program at the Tourist Office and other spots in the city
(rather heavy) and it is free.
On the paper program (and probably on the net as well) there is a little icon
telling people which shows are accessible to non speaking french viewers (usually
an eye sign)
Nice maps are provided in order