Avignon festival review " hit the timewarp gym and dive into a trippy Chekhov
There are epic and uneven shows from Olivier Py and Simon Falguières but Kirill Serebrennikov and Miet Warlop prove to be essential theatre voices The 2022 Avignon festival begins with shows featuring whirling monks, a karate nun and a kind of It's a Knockout in papal socks. Outgoing festival director Olivier Py's opening 10-hour production, My Exalted Youth, is a meta-theatre fable of a McJobbing Harlequin and his …