Paris Globe, a new international theater festival

There's more to life than just the Olympics! Anxious to escape the prevailing gloom, six young, dynamic and daring directors of Parisian theaters have joined forces for the first time to give birth to an ambitious project. “In a world increasingly under tension and economically difficult, we want to support places of creation, take risks, bring out the avant-garde scene and the rising generations,” explains Adrien de Van, director of the Paris theater -Villette.

This enthusiast, the “oldest” of the team, joined forces with his counterparts from Plateaux Sauvages, Théâtres 13 et 14, Silvia Monfort and Théâtre de la Bastille to found Paris Globe, an international artistic festival which will host 60 artists from ten countries: Spain, Lebanon, Chile, Cameroon, Quebec, Hungary, England, Mali, Ukraine and Italy, from May 21 to 31. “The Olympics are an opportunity to have a project together with strong and committed artists, not always visible in their country,” continues Adrien de Van.

“We remember that on our local scale, we must be international,” adds Mathieu Touzé, co-director of Théâtre 14 with Édouard Chapot. Foreign troops need to be known. “The Senor Serrano company is very important in Spain and was noticed at the Venice Biennale, but it is unknown in Paris,” underlines Jean-Baptiste Pasquier who succeeded, with Ninon Leclère, Laurence de Magalhaes and Stéphane Ricordel, at the head by Silvia Monfort, in 2022.

“When the public settles into our rooms, something happens, there is the Théâtre de la Ville or the 104, but we too, we are there, we are a new generation of directors who want to come together », rightly boasts Claire Dupont, the boss of the Théâtre de la Bastille. Laetitia Guédon, her colleague from Plateaux Sauvages (Paris 20th) is of her opinion: “We share the distribution of artists, we have this ease in supporting them.”

Thus, spectators will discover the Quebecois Alix Dufresne and Étienne Lepage in Malaise dans la civilization (May 23 and 24 at the Théâtre 14, then at the Manufacture-Patinoire, this summer at the next Avignon festival) the Cameroonian dancer Zora Snake in Le Departure (May 22 and 23 at the Plateaus sauvage), or Ira Brand, a British performer performing two solos: Ways to submit (May 25 and 26, Théâtre de la Concorde) and Commitment Phobe (May 29 and 30 May at the Bastille theater).

What is the theme that comes up the most in the proposals? “Doubt, choice, how do we define ourselves?” answers Claire Dupont.

The first edition of Paris Globe is 90% financed by the City of Paris. The organizers hope to repeat the experience in two years.

Information and reservations: parisglobe.fr