PARIS — At 9:30 on a nippy late-November morning, the avant-garde director Ariane Mnouchkine stood in the doorway of her theater, urging the stragglers in her troupe to hurry up and come in. “Dépêche-toi!” she yelled across the lawn to one, like a school principal urging on a dawdling student. With a wood stove burning in one corner, the room inside was fragrant and warm. Members of the renowned Théâtre du Soleil milled about, noshing on a simple spread — a tray of baguettes, a plate of soft butter, a pot of jam. It had been months since the actors had performed “A Room in India,” a play that is, as the company’s work tends to be, a multi-hour event.

Source: New York Times December 01, 2017 20:26 UTC