Audiences at the Festival of Avignon are different from any other type of audience. Over the course of time, Avignon has become a festival town transfigured by the various expectations of its festival audiences. Everyone hopes to attend performances suited to their own taste, and experience anew the intensity and original emotion of a great theatrical moment. No doubt this is the reason why the Festival of Avignon is the theatre of so many great expectations as well as so many huge disappointments.