Written by Bernard-Marie Koltès

Monologue

Cast: Sebastian Hufschmidt

Within the series "Land in sight - Waves"

15th of July 2009
Station Neufelden

Visitor group: Bank employees

What’s left to a man who is completely unassisted? His own story which he is able to tell. Koltès creates this way of storytelling in using the poetry of the expelled that spend their lives on the border between civilization and wilderness. The play leveraged his success as a playwright in the year 1977 where it had been shown on the festival in Avignon. A nameless man in a rainy night: He is searching for a room, a friend or simply somebody who listens. He is a foreigner in this country, in this place. A city in Western Europe. He finds shelter in a hotel corridor – perhaps the night porter let him in - perhaps he crept in to dry his clothes and hair. While different sounds rise from the rooms he restlessly moves through the corridors, sometimes talks to himself or to a friend he imagines. Memories of encounters and places emerge. Memories of recent and far experiences: the factory and the family comforting apartments, the hotel rooms, public toilets, bridges and street corners, the graveyard, the meadow and a home in a different country. Koltès uses experiences of an expelled and foreign man to create a dense piece of literature which’s opulence of images within the viewer produces true brain-cinema.