The presentation of the Guérande peninsula theatre writing prize will take place on Saturday, June 29, at the Esprit Large bookstore.
This distinction is organized by the association of the Jardin des écritures théâtrales of the Guérande peninsula, while the fourteen members of the jury had to choose between 63 pieces.
For this ninth edition, the actress Dominique Paquet will be the patron of the cultural event, and on the winner side, Céline Bernard has been chosen for her play Fires.
Living in Strasbourg, she began writing short stories then turned to theater writing with already seven plays to her credit. His award-winning piece is organized around the words of Solange Berthet, educator; Sébastien Voisard, educator, and Amine Gauthier, director of the Les gentianes home, who through their interviews, recreate the trajectory of Ethan and Rosa, as well as those of the young people with whom they cohabit in this childhood home. And then there are the threatening and approaching fires.
Intimate collapses
The starting point of the text is during the second lockdown, in November 2020, based on discussions with adolescents involved in amateur theatre practice, and who are questioning this world that is collapsing, faced with this world that is closing in.
Céline Bernard had ” then wanted to explore this question of collapse, of the margin, to which we can all be confronted in different ways: societal, ecological, social collapse or even more intimate collapse. Thus, this piece follows the journey of adolescents and young adults prey to their intimate breakdowns with other issues, linked to social exclusion and climate change. »
“But it also speaks of the powerlessness of adults and institutional structures to support these journeys, these chaotic trajectories, and aims to question the way we view these young people and their families, continues Céline Bernard. How do these adults, in charge of supporting these young people, try to reconstruct the story, to shed light on the gray areas, to revisit their memories, in order to face and accept the disappearance?
Saturday June 295:30 p.m., L’Esprit large bookstore, 12, rue Vannetaise, tel. 02 40 23 44 44. Free entry.
