Night Just Before the Forest

Night Just Before the Forest

by Bernard-Marie Koltès

translated by Timothy Johns

directed by Jimmy Fay

 

A desperate homeless man tries to justify his own existence to himself and an unseen interlocutor.

 

what the press said…

“An astoundingly intense performance.”

- Irish Independent

“An unrelenting study of paranoid obsession, which is performed with such conviction and written so eloquently that we want to rush from the theatre, as far from this tortured soul as possible.”

- Irish Times

“Bedrock deserve credit for broadening the horizons and offering one of the best pieces of theatre in this year’s Fringe.”

- Sunday Tribune

“It rocks you to the core…it would be a tragedy not to expose it to a full house every night from here.”

- The Advertiser (Adelaide)

 

Cast: Shane Hagan

 

Lighting by Aedin Cosgrove & Lee Davis Music by Vincent Doherty

 

The Bedrock production of Night Just Before The Forest, together with Pan Pan Theatre Company’s Standoffish and Ridiculusmus’ The Exhibitionists, shared an Advertiser Fringe Award for excellence at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2000, the first Irish companies ever to have done so.