France’s anti-cultural dystopia stole the show in Avignon | Report

Among the forest of posters that explodes every year around this time in the historic center of Avignon, occupying every millimeter of available wall like an uncontrolled vine, the campaign material of the New Popular Front—whose local candidate is the anti-fascist activist Raphaël Arnault—is in the minority, and they continue to lose in the polls compared to their rival from the National Union. But the Logos The shooting before, during and after the shows that make up the 78th edition of the Avignon Festival is unmistakable: the organization, headed by the Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues, and the vast mass of workers, many of them discontinuous, who rally behind the workers. The scenes and the multiple sell-out crowds stand firmly on the left side of the barrier in this last part of Sunday’s legislative elections. This, they portray, is nothing less than a struggle for survival.