An Off(ensive!)
Paris-Match | Alain Spira | Avignon trash
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PARIS-MATCH

8 AUGUST 2002
N°2776

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Avignon trash :

 

An Off(ensive!)

With more than 700 shows in its catalogue, the Festival Off inevitably offers the worst and the best. But if a "golden trash" were to be awarded to a play, it would unhesitatingly go to David Noir's Justes-Story Version.3, presented as "an almost hard happening..., a black diamond that came to sparkle in the middle of the ambient shit and the pretty Festival d'Avignon. And believe me, this is not false advertising! Forbidden to under 18s, you see on a porno-lettrist slideshow background: a festival of peckers serving in turn as hot dog sausages, cigars, a parade of butts welcoming the finger of a spectator (avoid the first row!) a sausage or Nutella, all sprinkled with a text cut with a chainsaw to better cut up our "rotten" world. All this is biting its own tail (it's a way of speaking, of course) but with an energy that is a pleasure to see ... from afar! ...

Alain SPIRA

David Noir

David Noir, performer, actor, author, director, singer, visual artist, video maker, sound designer, teacher... carries his polymorphous nudity and his costumed childhood under the eyes and ears of anyone who wants to see and hear.

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