Apart from the performance La Mélancolie des Dragons, Philippe Quesne also publishes amusing little books with the title Conséquences. Featuring pictures with ironic, short captions, Quesne wants to reawaken appreciation for nature in an urban environment. In the pictures we see somebody wholly absorbed by a tiny speck of green growing from the pavement or someone climbing a tree on a quest to find harmony with vegetation. Up to now, two parts of the series have appeared: “Petites réflexions sur la presence de la nature en milieu urbain” and “Actions en milieu naturel”. At the opening night of the game is up! Quesne will introduce the third book with a theatrical intervention.
Tom Bonte: “In the past, a catastrophe was a catastophe. Famine, fire, a true enemy in the form of a dragon: these things appeal to the imagination. The impending ecological disaster is too abstract for us to fathom according to dramatist Philippe Quesne. An abstract catastrophe is not a catastrophe. Quesne is an optimist. His plays will not save the world. Art is like an island to which the activist can retreat to catch his breath. But he will, however, continue to battle the many-headed hydra of impending catastrophe in this modest manner.
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