From The Blog
2 October 2026
For a little over a year, the theatre directors Milo Rau and Servane Dècle have been touring a play based on the Pelicot mass rape trial. First performed in Vienna in June 2025, The Pelicot Trial: Tribute to Gisèle Pelicot has travelled to Avignon (where the trial was held), a number of other European cities and New York. In many places, it has been one night only. The next performance will be on 4 October in St Gallen; it comes to London at the end of November. I saw it in Copenhagen, at the Betty Nansen Teatret, whose new artistic directors ‘want to create a theatre that dares to engage with the world we live in and insists that we can understand it better’.
