Past Productions: In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
Directed by Rafael De Mussa

With Nick Battiste and Rafael De Mussa
Sets by Salvatore Tagliorini, Lights by Aaron J. Mason, Sound by Deniz G. Akyurek, Costumes by Brian J. Tall

Two men pass on the street. "Tell me what you want and I'll get you it," asks one. "Tell me what you've got and I'll tell you what I want," replies the other. A thrilling cat-and-mouse game of desire and rejection, power and humiliation follows as the two men negotiate a deal that will never be struck.

PICKED FOR VOICE CHOICES: "Channeling the spirit of Beckett, this play by the late Bernard Marie Koltès dissects an enigmatic encounter between two men in a cat-and-mouse game of role reversals involving power, desire, rejection and humiliation. Koltès offers a discomforting vision of human interaction through a client, a dealer of unknown goods, amd their exchange doomed to never take place. The appropriated non-theatre space of Grand Central Terminal adds to the play's stab at existentialism."

Reviews of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
"The decision to stage Bernard-Marie Koltès' In the Solitude of Cotton Fields in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall might not be an obvious one, but it makes perfect sense.... Cotton Fields provides a welcome opportunity to become better acquainted with Koltès' incisive imagination...it remunerates attention to those curious about late-20th century developments in Western playwriting."
- Charles McNulty, The Village Voice

"Under the direction of Rafael De Mussa Koltès' text takes on the likeness of works created by Jean Genet or Samuel Becket....It is a poweful look at the way people negotiate."
- Langdon Hall, digitalcity.com

"This clever, intensely literate play will inspire you..."
- Robert Kent, Next Magazine

"In The Solitude of Cotton Fields...is brilliant, provocative poetry....In soaring language, the piece reaches into the very depths of human experience."
- Backstage