Avignon Festival

The Avignon Festival is in France the event of the year that all people interested with theatre and performing art wait for.

The Avignon Festival was created by Jean Vilar who came in the Cour d'Honneur of the Pope's Palace for the first time in 1947. He made of the Avignon Festival the Festival par excellence, where a demanding theatre come to meet the larger public. Sixty years after its debut, its success is still at the top.

the Avignon Festival Off is the anarchical and luxuriant complement of the official Avignon Festival. It burns the old papal city with a frantic enthusiasm : theatre stages appears everywhere in the centre of the city. Shows are in the street, on improvised stages located in improbable places. The Avignon Festival Off attracts a numerous public, curious and ready for the most diverse experiences.

Many words are written on the Avignon Festival every year but it is above all a living experience.