LETTERS FROM BELGIUM

The 23rd edition of the Festival de la Correspondance will take place from 3rd to 7th July 2018 on the theme "Letters from Belgium"


In 1996, on the 300th anniversary of the death of Madame de Sevigne, was born in Grignan the Festival de la Correspondance, on the initiative of Grignan Mayor, Bruno Durieux. It was the beginning of an adventure that was to lead to the celebration of a genre: letter writing, a previously neglected literary domain that has been gaining in popularity for a few years now by readers, writers, editors and comedians. The Festival has shown that letter writing is an always inspiring style, crossing times and continents.

Full program here.

Programming

  • Grignan

    TUE 3 JULY 2018
    8:30pm

  • Meeting

    Rencontre Littéraire with Amélie Nothomb and Eric Emmanuel Schmitt

    Litterary event in the chateau's courtyard

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    TUE 3 JULY 2018
    10pm

  • Reading

    Baudelaire's Belgium: country of illnesses without flowers

    Adaptation Virginie Berling
    Voice work Didier Brice
    With Alex Vizorek and Julia de Gasquet

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    WED 4 JULY 2018
    7:30pm

  • Show | Reading

    Reading / cabaret

    So close, so far

    Idea Philippe Meyer
    With Florence Viala et Loïc Corbery, from the Comédie Française, Emeline Bayard, Philippe Meyer and Pascal Sangla, piano

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    WED 4 JULY 2018
    10pm

  • Reading

    Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette Leblanc : Lettres de vie

    Adaptation Maxime Benoît-Jeannin
    Voice work Benjamin Guillard
    With Florence Viala and Loïc Corbery, from the Comédie Française

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    THUR 5 JULY 2018
    7:30pm

  • Concert | Reading

    Jacques Brel : writing you a long I love you

    Adaptation France Brel
    Voice work Erwan Coedelo
    With France Brel, Emmanuel Noblet and the singer Gatica

    In French

  • Grignan

    THUR 5 JULY 2018
    10pm

  • Reading

    Michaux "Donc c'est non"

    Adaptation anf voice work Patrice Leconte
    With Benoît Poelvoorde and Marie Gillain (subject to confirmation)

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    FRI 6 JULY 2018
    7:30pm

  • Show | Reading

    Reading

    Simenon, Letter to my mother

    Adaptation Marie Bernède
    Voice work Yves Beaunesne
    With Jacqueline Bir and Jean-Claude Drouot

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    FRI 6 JULY 2018
    10pm

  • Reading

    Yourcenar ou la lente fougue flamande

    Adaptation and voice work Virginie Berling
    With Marie-Christine Barrault

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    SAT 7 JULY 2018
    7:30pm

  • Show | Reading

    Reading

    I kiss you as I love you: Hubert Nyssen and Nina Berberova

    Adaptation Marianne Amar
    Voice work Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès
    With Mélanie Traversier (casting in progress)

    In French

    1h

  • Grignan

    SAT 7 JULY 2018
    10pm

  • Reading

    Letters between Casarès and Camus

    An idea from Valérie Six
    Voice work Jérémie Lippmann
    With Isabelle Adjani and Lambert Wilson

    In French

    1h

What else to see

  • Show
  • Night Festival 2018
  • Blood Wedding
  • 27 JUNE > 25 AUG 2018
  • Grignan

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  • Exhibition
  • Boncompain and the great masters, from Renoir to Picasso. Look on a donation
  • 19 MAY > 31 DECEMBRE 2018
  • Montélimar

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