City Garage presents the West Coast Premieres of
The Fetishist
by Michel Tournier
playing with
Night Just Before the Forest
by Bernard-Marie Koltès
February 16 – March 23, 2000
Directed by Frederique Michel
The Fetishist
Cast:
The Fetishist Bo Roberts
Time: The present
Place: A street in Alencon, France
Night Just Before the Forest
Cast:
He Shan Serafin
He Craig Parish
She Erin Vincent
Time: The present
Place: A street at night in Paris, France
Production Staff:
Set, Sound and Lighting Design Charles A. Duncombe, Jr.
Assistant Director Andrea Isco
Light and Sound Operator Jeff Boyer
Stage Manager Tatiana Alvarez
Production Photos Carlos Alvarado
Costumes Michele Gingembre
Each play runs approximately one hour.
There will be one 10 minute intermission.
ABOUT THE PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
Michel Tournier
Michel Tournier gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi, Cu Les Limbes du Pasifique (1967, Friday), an ingenious adaptation of the classic Robinson Crusoe theme. Rather than recycle old stories, Tournier parodies them in order to comment upon the contemporary world. Born in Paris in 1924, he wrote and produced for French radio and television from 1949–54. He was chief editor for the publishing firm of Plan (1958–68), press attaché at the Radio Europe (1964–68), and hosted the TV series La Chambre Noir (1960–65). He wrote for the magazine Nouvelles Littéraires and translated Erich Maria Remarque’s novels into French. Tournier’s mythic novels hit the literary scene at the right moment, when the audience was tired of the nouveau roman, with its difficult style of writing, avoidance of character analysis, absence of clear narrative, and emphasis on description instead of dramatization.
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès is one of Europe’s mast influential and widely performed playwrights. He was born in 1948 in France and died tragically in 1989, a week after his forty-first birthday. Shortly before his death, he completed his final play, Roberto Zucco. He was the author of fifteen plays as well as numerous short stories and essays. Koltès’s work is distinguished by a poetic and heightened style with almost mythic resonances, while remaining firmly rooted in a contemporary worldview. His influences are as widely ranging as Chekhov, Shakespeare and Marivaux.