The dramatic writing workshop as a mediating practice between literary creation and social phenomenon

Abstract

The workshop of theatrical writing can be understood as a literary and artistic mediation practice because it can allow people to open themselves to cultural objects that they do not usually frequent. The playwright Luc Tartar met with several groups of teenagers to conduct writing workshops aimed at developing their taste for literature, transforming their relation with writing and develop their sensitivity to theatre. The writing workshops were then able to bring to light the psychosocial reality of youth while they gave material to the production of the playwright who thus found an artistic material in direct contact with this youth. This device based on an interaction that informs about the sociology of youth and invites to reassess the processes of literary creation from a mix of practices. This mediation can be thought in terms of literary engagement because it creates a space of sociability and exchange for young people and is imbued with it, participating in the legitimation of this social category.