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The Avignon Performing Arts Festival

Last three weeks of July. A yearly event that encompasses all the performing arts. Each year is marked by a different theme. The central attention is on the Main Events (aka le "In"), grandiose or extremely high quality international performance events ranging from Shakespeare and Greek tragedy to French farce (Moliére), modern dance, and ballet. The bulk of the activity (le "Off") is the mass of short-run plays numbering in the hundreds which are stuffed into every possible nook-and-cranny theater, assembly room, and gymnasium that the walled ramparts (and outside) can hold.

The street performers, buskers, and mimes add a festive, sometimes frantic, note to the central 3-week period. We sample together, and discuss at night, reading the reviews and deciding where to spend our theater budget. The "In" events are expensive, the "Off" events can be very reasonable (eg, 10F). Our information about the Festival requires sending you a special pamphlet package (Refundable $10) . Call us if you are a serious theatre aficionado or francophile interested party.

Guests during this period can have loads of fun poking in and out of these activities, for no more time wasted than walking up the street 10 minutes, and the cost of a generous tip in the collective hat. Some of these events are unforgettable, clever, and full of the kind of pathos and inflection that only an artist culture like France can sustain.

For more information, please contact me at:

toursofprovence@aol.com

or call

970.241.5034