Avignon festival week two roundup: Seagull dead in the water, but Ibsen comes alive
Extreme enunciation mars a new French Chekhov " but skilful surgery updates Ibsen's An Enemy of the PeopleI've never known a festival so full of connecting threads. Every show programmed by curators Hortense Archambault and Victor Baudriller adds to the spiderweb in your head: economic crises stare down revolutionary ideals; globalisation locks horns with environmental concerns and various forms of inequality. A 360-…