The return to the stage of Juliette Binoche in “The Oath of Europe” by Wajdi Mouawad creates the event in Greece

Where are we ? Consequently, In the isolated house of an return stage juliette binoche “the old lady? Therefore, The parlor of a prison? An assize court? A school? In all these places at the same time. gathered on the scene of European OathNew creation of the lebanese-Canadian director and playwright Wajdi Mouawad, presented at the Théâtre d’Epidaure, east of the Peloponnesis, Friday 1^is and Saturday August 2.

This amphitheater. built in IV^e Century before our era, welcomed the asclepiéia, ritual representations of tragedies in honor of the God of Asclepius medicine, to whom the whole sanctuary was dedicated. It is there that. for seventy years, the Epidaurus and Athens theater festival has been held, where, for two months, contemporary creations and staged ancient texts mix. In recent years, contemporary playwrights (Ivo Van Hove, Tiago Rodrigues, etc.) have been invited to draw inspiration from mythological figures.

This Friday at the beginning of the evening. the public trepped before the new play by return stage juliette binoche “the Wajdi Mouawad, 56, begins one of the most emblematic names of the current European theater, notably thanks to his work in the Théâtre de la Colaline (Paris 20^e), which he has run since 2016 and will leave in March 2026. The effervescence is all the stronger since, among the seven actors on the poster, is Juliette Binoche.

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