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What a joy to start the Festival as well … The main courtyard of the Palace of the Popes is not always the Holy Grail. In Avignon, the revelation this year takes place extramural at Fabrica, the room in the poor neighborhood of Monclar, where Krystian Lupa presented the first show of the festival, in the afternoon of Saturday, July 4 The trees to be felled , after Thomas Bernhard. A masterpiece that has been hailed as such, all the standing room at the end of the performance – half past four in Polish surtitles. At 72, the master of Polish theater sign a dazzling artistic manifesto, which is also a human comedy of humor and an unnamed ferocity.
Lupa and Bernhard is already a history, which has more than twenty years: this is the sixth time that the Polish director adapts a text by the Austrian writer. The two men share the same radical demand of truth, the same desire to tear the masks to extract the unspoken and expose them in the open. With this text published in 1984, five years before his death in 1989, the destroyer of all corruptions and cowardice of Austria was inspired again from his own experience. And real and living personalities of the small world of Austrian art, shown with a striking satirical force, in all their mediocrity and compromises. A massacre of play that earned him a sensational trial, a media whirlwind with confiscation of copies by police, fuss on barriers to artistic freedom, and sales …
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