The stripped-back performance, based on the rape trial that shocked France and the world, ran all night at a church in Vienna ...

The French Senate has passed a bill that would define rape and sexual assault as any act without consent, bringing the country in line with several European neighbours .

The staging is the latest project of Vienna Festival director Milo Rau, one of many who followed last year's mass rape trial in the southern French city of Avignon. Unusually for such trials, the ...

Milo Rau's seven-hour reading revisits the exposed systemic failures exposed by Pelicot's historic trial and the societal shift she sparked.

A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of ...

- 'Second wave of MeToo' movement - In December, a French court sentenced Pelicot's former husband Dominique to 20 years in prison, a verdict that also made headlines in Austria.

"She opened the door and triggered a second wave of #MeToo," said Decle. A shortened version of the performance will next be staged in Avignon on 18 July. However, Gisele Pelicot, 72, will not be ...