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- Title
Avignon Theatre Festival Strike.
- Authors
Schneider, Robert
- Abstract
The fifty-seventh Avignon Festival was killed off due to a strike because of employer's greed, union brinksmanship, procedural bad faith, and governmental bad timing. Ariane Mnouchkine's latest production with the Théâtre du Soleil, "The Last Caravanseral", did not play, nor did any of the other thirty-five productions invited from France, Poland, Italy, and Belgium. Months of rehearsal and preparation were lost, France's summer theatrical showplace did not happen for the first time in its history. The Aix-en-Provence Lyric Art Festival was another victim. Since 1968, French performing artists have benefited from a special category of unemployment compensation. As "intermittent show workers," they have been able to collect forty percent of their normal salaries while unemployed, searching for gigs, or simply rehearsing. The system worked as an indirect subsidy for the entire performing arts community. When the Théâatre du Soleil closed a show, the company would go in together the next day and file for unemployment compensation.
- Subjects
STRIKES &; lockouts; ART festivals; LABOR unions &; art; BAD faith (Law); THEATER production &; direction; THEATER rehearsals; ENTERTAINERS
- Publication
Theatre Journal, 2004, Vol 56, Issue 2, p296
- ISSN
0192-2882
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tj.2004.0072