Poverty creates humility, humility creates diligence, diligence creates wealth, wealth creates arrogance, arrogance creates war, war creates poverty, poverty creates humility, humility creates ...”, this perpetual cycle of suffering and misery, of power and abuse of power, leaves traces. Traces on people, like the stranger condemned to loneliness in Bernard Marie Koltè's “The Night Just Before the Forests”, who is never seen anywhere except on the streets. In a bizarre and disturbing world, Emel Aydoğdu Burak Hoffmann sketch the thoughts of a desperate man who has nothing and no one left except for his idea he has to tell about, his idea of...

Bernard-Marie Koltès is considered one of the most important French playwrights. His strongest tool is language, in which supposedly simple everyday words and thoughts exude an enormous magic.

with Burak Hoffmann
directors: Burak Hoffmann and Emel Aydoğdu
tech: Malte von Mende
photo: Nick Harwart