Un Conte Dans Un Arbre in Bourges

Un Conte Dans Un Arbre brings George Sand’s Le chêne parlant, one of the Contes d’une grand-mère written for her granddaughters, to the stage as a theatrical and musical reading. The story follows Emmi, a young farm boy who leaves the farm where he works and chooses to live in the forest. There he discovers animal and plant worlds that deserve the same consideration as human life. Sand’s tale becomes an ecological fable for children and adults, linking Berry’s literary heritage to questions about how society treats the living world. In Bourges, spoken narrative and music carry a strikingly modern idea: the forest is more than scenery, and Emmi’s encounter with it changes the way he understands coexistence. The performance draws its force from that meeting of literature, theatre and ecological thought.