When I moved here in 1992, a friend offered me an extra ticket to Ariane Mnouchkine’s Les Atrides at BAM. Despite the amazing things I’d heard of this French auteur and her village-sized troupe of actors, designers, musicians, technicians and children, I couldn’t make the performance. Today I don’t remember what the hell prevented me, but all I know is I regret it. In 2005, my jaw dropped and stayed dropped for the six-hour duration of Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées), Mnouchkine’s awesome tapestry of hope, pain, struggle and betrayal among refugees around the world. Now she’s back and you bet I’ll be there. Tonight and tomorrow night I’ll be reviewing the two-part, seven-hour Les Ephémères, another grand mosiac of scenes, this one about fleeting memories. On the Theater main page and here on Upstaged, we’ll have extended coverage of Mnouchkine & Co. Tomorrow check in for Helen Shaw’s preview of Les Ephémères and a slide show of Théatre du Soleil’s previous New York visits. Also, I took the opportunity to blog over at The Guardian about NYC and world theater (sorry, theatre, if you’re a Brit). My Guardian piece is here. For tickets to Les Ephémères go here. Bound to sell out fast.