16 ans

"16 ans" cʼest theater for teenagers made by teenagers with teenage concerns teenage concerns: fear, shyness, desire, expectation, misunderstanding, revenge, meanness, despair, panic, worry, tranquility, lovelessness, love, boredom. Early concerns of human beings for the first time brought into play in front of the group. To oneself. Facing the beloved. Some funny and difficult first verbalizations. Gestures no simpler. From dʼadolescent groups look like schools of fish. They keep it tight. They form a big, soft, awkward body. They smell bad. It stays together. This nʼest not ugly. Itʼs restless vitality. Cʼest beau. Here it meets in the evening around a scooter. It talks. It sʼattrape. It squeezes. They push each other away. Screaming. It laughs. It dances strangely. It whines. It has dreams. It meets to sʼembrace with tongue. It meets to rehearse a play for their French french a play for the bac. Cʼest dʼest sur rien. On how to speak. Behaving. Acting. Interpreting. It comes to something. It has ideas, and those ideas aren't stupid at all. It sets up a world: theirs theirs. A beginning of a new world made by a new beginning of human beings at their beginning.