Strenae (Jun 2020)
Retour sur un ancien dogme : former le spectateur de demain
Abstract
When undercutting young readers’ innocence and bringing an awareness of the world’s realities becomes a recurrent creative motivation for artists, a poetics of childhood takes shape, responsible for representations of society. In this regard, a balance must be found between entertainment and sensitization for the young reader, because the current challenges of certain cultural childhood objects are very often giving voice to the Infans, to the one who does not speak or saw himself refusing, even confiscating, the right to speak. In this way, a whole category of contemporary youth theater displays a certain ethical and aesthetic commitment. But if it seems that youth theater today is concerned with giving voice to the child and inviting him to take part in a world in which he has had a role to play since childhood, it was not always so; there was a long period when it was more a question of forming the future citizen—using theater as a medium—rather than of investing in the individual’s training during childhood.
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