A street performer waiting his turn ...

A street performer waiting his turn at the Avignon festival of Theatre

Back in July, I spent an amazing weekend at the Festival of Theatre at Avignon in France. It is the largest theatre festival in the world, which lasts a whole month and has over 900 registered shows – that’s not including all the street performers either.  Well, Avignon is busy anyway, but during this festival it is heaving, noisy, hot and full-on. On every street corner, in every small square/place, in every court-yard, you can stop and watch the street performers, from acrobats and tumblers, to comedians (that’s another story), drama, all kinds of music, the strongest woman in the world (very funny Australian lady) and some I have no idea what they were doing or about to do!  I happened to walk past a band playing on a street corner and stopped to listen to some very good folk-jazz mix.  the band wasn’t a very photogenic crowd though and I then noticed this gentleman waiting for his turn to perform…