Places and “Non-places”
"What is a place? What is a place that becomes a non-place? The scene happens in Brittany in the second part of the twentieth century. The farmers were gone. They never came back. Young urban middle-class people settled in their place. A population is replaced by another. A general running off, a discarded village. The first generation of inhabitants were the farmers, the yuppies the second, and the residents of the global village the third. Today the new settlers buy on the Internet. They come, they restore a cottage, and they leave. They do not stay for long; they become passers-by, and they have no time to learn the language of the country. And they have gone. The last remaining image of an empty scene is left on the Internet in the “Rent a fabulous cottage” page. The people remain unseen. What will be the next scene of this play?