Once one of the most vital spaces for New York's LGBTQ community, the piers 42, 45, 46 and 51 served over decades as living quarters for queer homeless youth, a casual hangout and meeting spot for LGBTQ groups of friends. It was legendary hangout, a refuge, a locale for sex, a beach, a dance floor, an art gallery—a place of thrills, of danger, of comfort, of joy. One of the most important European playwrights of the 20th century, Bernard-Marie Koltès from Paris, was attracted and inspired. His most famous play, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, actually takes place at the Christopher Street Piers. Bring a blanket, food and drinks and listen to actors Ismail ibn Conner and Tony Torn performing Koltès on the Piers while the sun sets over the Hudson. In this celebrated masterpiece a Dealer stops a Client on the Piers, at the dark hour of twilight, peddling hidden merchandise which the Dealer keeps secret. The Client, in return, refuses to reveal why he has come here, at this hour, and what he truly desires from the Dealer. This encounter, at the brink of bursting into a street fight or turning into a flirt, transforms traditional dramatic dialogue into a succession of long poetic monologues, reaffirming language as the main medium of this dramatic form.