In The Solitude Of Cotton Fields, Tristan Bates, London
Tristan Bates, London: In The Solitude of Cotton Fields marks a watershed in the career of French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes. Already aware of the illness that would inevitably kill him, the play is a telling indictment of a world where anything, even human life, may be bought or sold if the price is right. The narrative, such as it is, consists of a single conversation between two strangers who pass each other …