In charge of opening the 75th edition of what he called “the most beautiful festival in the world”, Thiago Rodriguez added this Monday, at 44, an “immeasurable” mission, according to his predecessor Olivier Pi. next director of the Avignon Festival… An announcement made at the end of the morning by French Culture Minister Roselyn Bachelo, highlighting the “deep poetry” of the project presented by the Portuguese director and playwright and his desire to unite “European ambitions” that are his watermark for “a strong and sincere territorial tie” – it seems , not too much, at least for now, on the shoulders of the still artistic director of the National Theater D. Maria II (TNDMII). It will be “the size of a lumberjack” that the magazine Telerama attributed to him a few days ago, pointing to him as a possible successor to the mythical founder Jean Vilaror, more likely, the framework that his brilliant recognition in the international arena, and especially in France, has given him over the past few years: it is certain that, as Roseline Bachelo herself admitted, before pronouncing this name, everything is already assumed that his the coming to the top of the world social pyramid of the European theater, which will end on September 1, 2022, “superimposed itself on itself very clearly and naturally.”
