December 7, 2021
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Pauline Guillier, « From the fallow land to the forest: ecopoetics and textual dramaturgies », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.58282/lht.2855
This article is an attempt at questioning the weaving of ecopoetics and textual dramaturgies, based on a corpus of five contemporary plays, which have been discussed and selected by theater reading committees. Using the figure of fallow land as an analogy but also as a call for a new state of mind / of action may shed a new light on ecological acts of writing and acts of reading. Walking on a fallow land, searching for the conditions of the becoming forest of dramatic literature — reaching a climax in terms of richness and complexity — lead to examine how new theatrical scores are composed and dramaturgic (re)combinations can be invented, thus questioning the ways more than humans and environment are represented and (re)literalised in playwriting as well as our possibilities to regenerate our wasted imaginations and our damaged ecological affects.