Theatre: Welcome Elsewhere - Theatre of the People's House

Théâtre de la Maison du Peuple - rue pasteur

Sara is sixteen when she discovers images of megafires engulfing forests and injuring kangaroos. She runs away a year later. What does her act mean? Her mother, her peers, her loves, reflect on it, chase her quest, try to understand the traces the teenager leaves behind in them. Sara’s absence is the escape line of the play. The runaway teenager is told, in fragments and also musically, as a sonic palette of toms, a lithophone and a vibraphone, calling birds and orchestral tymbals. The radical ecological framing carried by the piece is explored by the director...