Synopsis
Koltes Plays 1 - Black Battles with Dogs & Return to the Desert & Roberto Zucco
Published by Methuen
Return to the Desert enacts a conflict that is to do with ownership - Adrien and Mathilde (brother and sister) fight about who can lay claim to the family property
Roberto Zucco pits the outlaw Roberto Zucco against the whole of law-abiding society"
Koltes's plays present a vision of the harsh realities of late twentieth-century life, influenced by Genet and Fugard, combined with a formal approach to dramatic dialogue in the French classical tradition
Bernard-Marie Koltès is "a classic of our time, who, since 1990 is the French author most performed abroad" ~ Le Monde