Written by Bernard-Marie Koltes
Translated from the French by Andy Bragen
Translation commissioned by inparentheses theatre, with the support of Etant Donnes, the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. Reading, June 2002. Reading May 2003, directed by Richard Kimmel, as part of the 2003 Koltes Festival.
Cast of two (one male, one female). Ten minutes long.
The interior courtyard of a house. Eleven at night. 100 degrees.
I translated Tabataba for the 2003 Koltes Festival at the Ohio Theatre in New York, organized by Marion Schoevaert and Doris Mirescu. What a great little play! The characters are a brother, a sister, and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The setting is the interior of a courtyard. 11 at night. 100 degrees.