OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Alex Johnston  David Fancy  Joseph Long 

• Author Notes

  A translation from the original French play by Bernard-Marie Koltes.

• Notes

  This English text of Quay West is a collaboration between the three translators, all of whom referred to the original French and all of whom offered comment on each other's work.

• Synopsis

  On the outskirts of a sprawling city one can only hear its distant hum, its police sirens and see its lights. All around there are vast disused harbour machinery and plants, huge dock sheds and remnants of past economic activity. It is in this apocalyptic place, on a very dark night, that some characters meet. Everything seems to set them apart, their age, their wealth, their nationality and their social standing. They have all been attracted to this location in search of some hypothetical salvation and above all, to find the courage to end it all: their life, their poverty or some relationship too difficult to take upon themselves. They all have their own reasons for being there.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  3

• Total

  8

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  13 April 1999

• Producer

  Produced by Bedrock

• Original Venue

  Project Arts Centre
  

• Venue Notes

  When this play was presented, Project has temporarily relocated to Project@The Mint.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.