The Avignon Vision

PHILIPPA WEHLE is professor emerita of drama studies and of French language and culture at Purchase College, SUNY. She writes widely on contemporary theatre and performance and is the author of Le Théâtre populaire selon Jean Vilar, editor of Drama Contemporary: France, and Act French: Contemporary Plays from France. She has translated numerous contemporary French language plays and is a Chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters.