Night Just Before the Forests

Bernard Marie Koltes

 


We, foreigners, outsiders have to deny ourselves everything and tie it down firmly: the main thing in my idea of union, is to stop getting hard-ons forever and everywhere as long as everything is managed by the secret little gangs that owns the ministers, the cops, the army, work and even little bitches with curly blond hair.”

Bernard Marie Koltes

One of the most important contemporary French playwrights, was born in Metz in 1948 and died in Paris in 1989. His major plays include Black Battles with Dogs, Quay West, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, Return to the Desert and Roberto Zucco.

 


The play is portrait of an immigrant surviving on the breadline in a city slum where danger lurks around every corner and wits are the only survival mechanism worth relying on.