Plays by Krzysztof Warlikowski and Marta Górnicka have been included in the programme of the 78th edition of the Avignon Festival.
Warlikowski’s play titled Elizabeth Costello. Sept leçons et cinq contes moraux is based on the work by J.M. Coetzee. It is the eighth time the director is to stage a play at the festival.
According to the festival’s website, Warlikowski is “creating a theatre for his contemporaries, a theatre that questions, that disturbs, that takes hold of non-consensual societal themes.”
Meanwhile, Marta Górnicka is to present her Mothers. A Song for Wartime. a story of women from Ukraine, Poland and Belarus influenced by Russia’s aggression on Ukraine.
The festival’s organisers describe Górnicka as a “director, writer, and singer, a graduate of the Warsaw National Academy of Dramatic Art and the Chopin University of Music.”
“In her choruses, voices and bodies, individually or together, are intrinsically political instruments. She explores a variety of choral forms to create confrontations with unbearable realities,” the organisers also said, adding that Górnicka “uses the stage as a platform to enact discourses of conflict and resolution, giving members of different communities the opportunity to make their voices heard and to recognise their shared humanity.”
The annual event is France’s oldest existent festival, considered one of the most important theatre festivals in the world.
It is held every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais de Paper and several other venues across the French city.
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Source: PAP, festival-avignon.com