We Recommend: Performing Arts
Molière’s Tartuffe
Fri 25 May - Sat 28 Jul
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Inspired by current world events, award-winning playwright Christopher Hampton has freshly adapted Molière's comedic masterpiece to present day LA. Starring a French and British cast (including Audrey Fleurot, Paul Anderson, Sebastian Roché, George Blagden), this will be the West End’s first ever dual language production.
Performing Arts
The Barber of Seville
Sun 5 - Wed 8 Aug
Edinburgh International Festival
A new production of Gioachino Rossini's comic opera that brings a refreshing immediacy to this irresistible masterpiece. French musical pioneer Jérémie Rhorer will conduct his orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie for this new production.
Classical Music, Performing Arts
The Beggar’s Opera
Thu 16 - Sun 19 Aug
Edinburgh International Festival
John Gay’s 18th-century opera is brought into the modern day in this brand new production from Paris’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, created by William Christie and Robert Carsen, two commanding figures of the international stage.
Classical Music, Performing Arts
La Maladie de la Mort
Thu 16 - Sun 19 Aug
Edinburgh International Festival
Katie Mitchell, one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic theatre makers, presents her own uncompromising stage adaptation of the provocative novella by Marguerite Duras, produced by the Bouffe du Nord theatre.
Performing Arts
La Cenerentola – Rossini
Fri 24 - Sun 26 Aug
Edinburgh International Festival
A visually stunning staged production of Rossini’s opera. The classic tale of Cinderella is radically transformed by renowned director Stefan Herheim with music by an exuberant Opéra de Lyon Orchestra.
Classical Music, Performing Arts
…Sodade…
Fri 14 - Sat 15 Sept
Inside Out Dorset Festival
Breathtaking circus and magical storytelling combine in a world-class sunset spectacular. Cirque Rouages take to the sky above Poole Quay on an ever-turning cable, telling timeless stories of the sea. Part of the Inside Out Dorset Festival.
Performing Arts
The Outsider (L’Étranger)
Fri 14 Sept - Sat 13 Oct
Print Room at the Coronet
Albert Camus’ classic existentialist masterpiece about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century. It is presented at Print Room at the Coronet in its first major UK production, and adapted by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.
Performing Arts
Manimal: Gesticulating, a Way of Thinking About the World
Sat 15 - Sun 16 Sept
Inside Out Dorset Festival
In this performance, Les Souffleurs Commandos Hybrides become hybrid beings, half-human, half-animal, in and around Boscombe, creating improvised nests, popping up in the landscape and then disappearing again. Part of the Inside Out Dorset Festival
Performing Arts
France Now – Focus on French Theatre in Manchester
Tue 27 Nov - Sat 1 Dec
HOME Manchester
With its focus France Now, HOME presents three contrasting performances from the best of the French artistic contemporary scene: Ballet Bar by the Pyramid company, J'ai trop peur (I'm so scared) by David Lescot and Submission by Michel Houellebecq.
Performing Arts
Notre-Dame de Paris
Wed 23 - Tue 29 Jan
London Coliseum
After touring in 23 countries worldwide over the last 20 years, the smash-hit French musical based on the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo returns to London with an international team of singers, dancers, acrobats and music composed by Richard Cocciante.
Performing Arts