On March 1, 2020, roughly two weeks before the COVID lockdown began in France, the French writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes published an essay in the left-leaning paper Libération. The essay, ...
Virginie Despentes is pivoting to theater. Playgoers “really show up, even for demanding or radical works,” she says. By Laura Cappelle Reporting from Paris Over the past three decades, Virginie ...