I IS ANOTHER: SEPTOLOGY III-V, the second instalment in a major new work by Jon Fosse, one of Europe's most celebrated writers, follows the lives of Asle and Asle - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness.
I IS ANOTHER: SEPTOLOGY III-V, the second instalment in a major new work by Jon Fosse, one of Europe's most celebrated writers, follows the lives of A...
Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child
In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come.
The Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by.
The Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a...
Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child
In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want t...
Includes the plays And We’ll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black
In And We’ll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre’s unique potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost story?
The Son concerns an ageing and isolated couple, whose long-absent son has a score to settle with their meddlesome neighbour.In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attentions of her mother’s...
Includes the plays And We’ll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black
Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations
Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat that is for sale; they will never understand each other; someone will always insist on one thing, while...
Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations
Jon Fosse has been called ‘the Beckett of the 21st century’ (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed ‘Waiting for Godot without the gags’. Just as Beckett’s plays — and those of all great playwrights — grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, and were part of what brought their times forward, so do Fosse’s plays now. Fosse: Plays Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright’s body of work for the stage to be published in the English language.
The volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These...
Jon Fosse has been called ‘the Beckett of the 21st century’ (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed ‘Waiting for God...
