Quay West

Quay West (Quai ouest)

    Alternative Title: Key West; Western Dock

    Author: Bernard-Marie Koltès

    First Performance: 1985, Paris

    Published: 1985

    First English Translation: Not known

    Genre: Drama without act divisions; French prose with some Spanish

    Setting: Deserted jetty on a river, indeterminate location, indeterminate 20th-c. period

    Cast: 5m, 3f

Maurice Koch has got Monique to drive him at night to the deserted spot on the river where he secretly intends to commit suicide by drowning. He orders her to drive home leaving him there. She reluctantly watches him go into a disused hangar, where Charles helps him on his way. On the jetty, Koch explains that he wishes to kill himself to escape from the scandal of embezzling money. He puts stones in his...

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