Tag: Ariane Mnouchkine

  • Les Ephemeres

    There’s not much I can add to the discussion of Ariane Mnouchkine’s Les Ephemeres, currently playing at the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Isherwood captures it nicely in the Times when he says, it is “a deep, steady stream that ultimately opens out into a vista of beauty both humble in…

  • video of the day: Le Théâtre du Soleil

    Apropos of Le Théâtre du Soleil’s upcoming performance of Les Éphémères to the Lincoln Center Festival in July (tix here), here’s a YouTube snapshot of attending the eight-hour show at its original home at La Cartoucherie, an old munitions factory complex in Vincennes. More video on the production (all in French as far as I…