Thierrée’s Tabac Rouge announced as Sydney Festival curtain raiser

The French theatre-maker’s most extravagant work to date is a study of desire, power and social structures.
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Sydney Festival has revealed its first production for 2015: James Thiérrée’s Tabac Rouge, an intensely physical production blurring circus, dance and theatre.

Thiérrée, the grandson of Charlie Chaplin and the great-grandson of playwright Eugene O’Neill, is well known to Sydney audiences, following sold-out seasons of previous Sydney Festival shows: Junebug Symphony (2003), Bright Abyss (2006) and Au Revoir Parapluie (2008).

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts