Bernard Marie Koltès Theatre

This is an essay or article about political theatre. It argues that theatre functions as a mirror of society, and that from the 1960s onward, with the rise of new criticism, theatre became increasingly political, moving toward social critique and even confrontation with society itself. The text explains that playwrights, unable to speak freely about social issues due to censorship, developed distinctive methods to critique society within their plays while evading official control. It identifies Bernard Marie Koltès as one of the most important French playwrights of the 1980s, though the source text breaks off before developing this discussion further.