NIGHT JUST BEFORE THE FOREST : “In this stream-of-consciousness monologue, a man scours his easily distracted mind to find a path through his life.” -Cleveland Scene “Lazaros Theodorakopoulos creates ...

Bernard-Marie Koltès (9 April 1948 – 15 April 1989) was a French playwright and theatre director best known for his plays La Nuit juste avant les Forêts (The Night Just Before the Forests, 1976), ...

THE plays of Bernard-Marie Koltès, the French playwright who lived in and wrote about New York, may not be the gift Americans are looking for from the French. But it may be the gift many French feel ...

PARIS, May 28 — Since Bernard-Marie Koltès died in 1989 at 41, his reputation as a playwright has continued to grow. In February, for the first time, one of his plays, “Le Retour au Désert,” entered ...

We seek between8 and 16 participants for a three-day theater workshop with a visiting Frenchstage director around texts by Bernard-Marie Koltès. Details below. Pleasecontact Amin Erfani for questions ...

The rumors from Paris are true: Bernard-Marie Koltès is among the most frequently produced playwrights in Europe today. Born in 1948 and dead (of AIDS) at the age of 41 in 1989, Koltès has been ...

French director Claire Denis is set to return to West Africa for her next feature film, an adaptation of late French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès’s 1980 work Black Battles With Dogs (Combat de ...

09/09/2025 - Claire Denis brings all the tumultuous, coded and unhinged strangeness of Bernard-Marie Koltès’ play to the big screen, dissecting the full spectrum of domination relationships Isaach De ...

A man steps out of the shadows. “If you are out walking at this hour and in this place,” he says to his surprised passerby, “you must want something.” This is the first line of Bernard-Marie Koltes’ ...

Bernard-Marie Koltes was a French playwright who died young. A quick trawl of the internet reveals that he is little known and seldom performed, yet this Southwark Playhouse revival of Black Battles ...