This book aims to give an account of the imaginations and proposals of an essential creator in the children's and adolescent theatre scene: Suzanne Lebeau. An author and actress, founder of the company Le Carrousel, who from Quebec has left the imprint of her texts on young audiences around the world over the last thirty years. A woman who has encouraged, through theory, pedagogy and praxis, the vindication of a theatre for children and young people that is responsible, demanding of itself, with high poetic flight and social dignity. A theatre that does not renounce the criticism of this world in which we live together, young and old: a world that in her own words is cruel, tender, complex and contradictory... This book aims to give an account of a path of words and emotions, in which hope can never be born from the concealment of the darkest side of injustice, but from the affirmation of new ways of living together, of doing, of feeling, of living. Because theatre can still allow us the opportunity to think (about ourselves) and to rethink the world.
This book is dedicated to all those who are starting over and especially to those who still believe in hope…