45 journalists, critics, theater directors and academics have established their pantheon: Twenty shows for the 21st century.
The jury’s list of winners (LE TEMPS):
- Inferno, from Dante’s Divine Comedy, by Romeo Castellucci, choreography by Cindy Van Acker, Avignon Festival, 2008. 13 votes.
- What If They Went to Moscow, based on Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, by Christiane Jatahy, presented at the Comédie de Genève in November 2018. 11 votes.
- (A)poland, with texts by Aeschylus, Euripides, Hanna Krall, Jonathan Littell, J.M. Coetzee, performance by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Festival d’Avignon, 2009. 10 votes
- La casa de la fuerza, Angelica Liddell, Festival d’Avignon, 2010. 10 votes
- Ça ira (1), fin de Louis, by Joël Pommerat, at the Comédie de Genève in 2017. 9 votes
- Please, continue (Hamlet), Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat, premiered at the Grü, Geneva, 2011. 9 votes
- The Encounter, Simon McBurney, Théâtre de Vidy, September 2015. 9 votes
- 4.48 Psycho, by Sarah Kane, directed by Claude Régy, with Isabelle Huppert, Paris, Bouffes du Nord, 2002. 8 votes
- Phaedra, by Jean Racine, directed by Patrice Chéreau, Théâtre de l’Odéon, Paris, January 2003. 8 votes
- Eraritjaritjaka, with texts by Elias Canetti, directed by Heiner Goebbels, Théâtre de Vidy, 2004. 8 votes
- Tous des oiseaux, by Wajdi Mouawad, Paris, Théâtre de la Colline, November 2017. 8 votes
- Clôture de l’amour, by Pascal Rambert, Festival d’Avignon, 2011. 8 votes
- Richard III, Shakespeare, by Thomas Ostermeier, Festival d’Avignon, 2015. 7 votes
- The Caucasian chalk circle, Bertolt Brecht, by Benno Besson, Théâtre de Vidy, May 2001. 7 votes
- Schutz vor der Zukunft (Protecting oneself from the future), by Christoph Marthaler, Festival d’Avignon, 2010. 7 votes
- King Kong Theory, by Virginie Despentes, directed by Emilie Charriot, Théâtre Arsénique, Lausanne, 2014. 6 votes
- An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen, by Thomas Ostermeier, Festival d’Avignon, 2012. 6 votes
- La Chambre d’Isabella, by Jan Lauwers and the Needcompany, Festival d’Avignon, 2004. 6 votes
- Idiot! Because we should have loved each other, Fedor Dostoevsky, by Vincent Macaigne, Théâtre de Vidy, 2014. 6 votes
- Le Sang des promesses (Littoral, Incendies, Forêts), by Wajdi Mouawad, Festival d’Avignon, 2009. 6 votes
- Les Damnés, by Luchino Visconti, directed by Ivo van Hove, Festival d’Avignon 2016. 6 votes
- By heart, by Tiago Rodrigues, Lisbon, 2015. 6 votes.
Photo © Magali Girardin, 2014