This week's arts diary
The French are frankly unshockable at the Avignon festival, plus Lynn Barber shorn and Rabbie Burns's local theatre savedLingua franca in AvignonThe Diary returns fresh from a weekend at the Avignon festival, France's answer to our own Edinburgh arts extravaganza. As well as acquiring the French for "Excuse me, can you please budge up so I can get to my seat?" ("Excusez-moi, mais je dois vous déranger"), the Di…