Radek Rychcik’s “In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields” Coming to PuSH and OtB

Just for Friday fun: the trailer for Radoslaw Rychcik’s production of Bernard-Marie Koltes’ In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields, which will be rocking the Pacific Northwest, first here in Seattle at On the Boards Jan. 13-16, and then in Vancouver, B.C. at the PuSH Festival Jan. 19-22.

I saw the show at PICA in September, and was incredibly impressed. Koltes is one of those too-French-for-his-own-good playwrights in my book, and his script–an abstract dialogue between a “dealer” (of what? don’t be so fucking literal, ignorant American!) and a “client”–would be dead-on-arrival in most people’s hands. Rychick, though, turns the affair into a trippy, downright threatening rock concert (with full Polish rock band in tow) with nods to Tarantino-esque aesthetics, at the same time he takes the script in directions that are downright shockingly unpredictable.

So definitely go see it, and if you haven’t checked out the rest of the PuSH Festival’s line-up, do so.