West Pier

A disused old harbour hangar in a derelict quarter of a large western port city, separated from the centre by a river.

Maurice Koch, sixty years old; Monique Pons, forty-two. Cécile, sixty years old; her daughter Claire, fourteen; her husband Rodolfe, fifty-eight; and their son Charles, twenty-eight years old. A guy nicknamed Fak, about twenty-two, and a nameless man in his thirties, whom Charlie called Abad two or three times. 

A wealthy businessman arrives in the heart of the harbour district with a clear goal – to end his life. But a stranger pulls him out of the water, and now the locals in the area are demanding the return of everything that life has not given them.

It is the story of people who should never have met, but they did – in an imaginary no-manʼs land, existing on the fringes of society, on the edge of every city in the world.

The performance is directed by Adomas Juška, one of the most interesting and promising directors of the young generation. His productions are consistently mentioned by critics among the most memorable theatre events.

Juška debuted with the performance “Švejk” (based on Jaroslav Hašek) at the State Youth Theatre in 2018, where he also created four more performances: “Fictions” (based on Jorge Luis Borges), “Brother of Sleep” (based on Robert Schneider), “Don Quixote” (based on Miguel de Cervantes), and “Gouache”.

Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989) was a French playwright, writer, and theatre director, best known in Lithuania as the author of the shocking play “Roberto Zucco”. He gained worldwide fame posthumously, becoming a classic of contemporary French dramaturgy and one of the most translated and performed playwrights. Koltès opened new fields of theatrical play, combining new dramaturgical structures with classical poetic language, thus creating a unique resonance of metaphors. His plays depict a modern world where human relationships are governed by the laws of negotiation and the struggle for power and survival.

The play “West Pier” was written in 1983.