Theatre: Welcome Elsewhere

rue pasteur

Sara is sixteen when she discovers the images of megafires that engulf forests and injure kangaroos. She runs away a year later. What does her act mean? Her mother, her peers, her loves speak of it, track her quest, trying to understand the traces the teenager leaves behind in them. Sara’s absence is the line of flight of the play. The runaway teenager is told, in fragments and also in music, through a sound palette composed of drums, a lithophone and a vibraphone, calls and orchestral timbres. About the radical ecology carried by the n…