ABSTRACT
French director Philippe Quesne states that the ‘co-habitation between “human/non-human”’ drives his theatrical work. In fact, his stage creations manifest themselves as attempts to inhabit the Earth differently. In his shows, the modest but interdependent acts and gestures of the actors reveal a myriad of attempts to compose and weave plural modes of existence in complex bio-environments. Far from a simplistic opposition between nature and culture, the scenic worlds presented in Quesne’s work are eminently inhabitable in the sense that they are informed by resource management and non-antagonist sociality while being interwoven into determined atmospheric, meteorological and geographical ecosystems. The stage thus becomes a heterotopia where a form of sustainable habitability is shared and made public.
