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Article: The French Toast to the Arts
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- The Washington Post
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- August 9, 1987
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The outstanding event of the festival of Avignon this year was
"The Satin Slipper" by Paul Claudel-the full text, with all its
global scope, 10 hours of performance plus intermissions.
But a lot else went on before the curtain rang down Thursday on
the Festival, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. The
Come'die Franc- aise presented three new short plays by Harold
Pinter. President Franc- ois Mitterrand dropped by incognito to see
them, but the performance was rained out.
The president did not miss a great evening of theater. Former
minister of culture Jack Lang, who often speaks as if he were still
minister of culture, was spotted at a performance of a play by Tilly,
the ...