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"In their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a common concept of time. The past is recreated through present moments, the future hinted at through shared memories, yet experienced from different perspectives. Fosse's drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters' relationships. The whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting husband to come home. In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a young woman and a young man as they grow into middle-age and old age. Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open up to one's actions through sequences of time. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future. Warm's characters move back and forth through time to capture past images and actions, in an effort to make sense of the present. Telemakos reinvents an old classic from a contemporary point of view. Fosse's dramatic voice is full of poetic intensity, yet wryly ironic, and with a sense of the comedy of the human condition."--Publisher description.

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"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 see one thing, while others will insist on something else. In Beautiful, the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. Conflicts simmer when husband and wife punish each other by courting his best friend, while his daughter meets a local boy. Death Variations explores different aspects of the theme of death: death of love, death of relationship, death of happiness, and finally the death of a young person. As the characters in Fosse's plays search for meaning or even just familiarity in their ruptured lives, their struggles find an echo in the rhythms and repetitions of their speech."--BOOK JACKET.

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"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 pregnant girl and the father of the child have nowhere to live, they move into her parents' house. But the parents have never met the father-to-be, and don't yet know about the pregnancy. In The Child a man and a woman find each other in a bus stop on a rainy night. They hold each other close. They rent an old house out of town. The woman becomes pregnant. But the child is too small to survive."--BOOK JACKET.

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Jon Fosse est l’un des auteurs les plus joués sur les scènes européennes. Pourtant son œuvre, qui ne comporte pas seulement des textes pour le théâtre, reste entouré d’un halo incompris. D’où vient cette lumière blafarde ? Est-il un héritier d’Ibsen qui, hasard ou condition logique, fut directeur de théâtre à Bergen où Fosse a également vécu et travaillé ? Ou est-il quelqu’un qui s’écarte par sa forme radicalement dépouillée d’une tradition qui porte depuis un siècle la marque du grand Norvégien et, bien sûr, d’August Strindberg ? Leif Zern, critique suédois, ne connaît pas seulement le théâtre. L’évolution des arts plastiques et du cinéma voire des sciences est indispensable pour élucider le lieu et l’étendue de cette œuvre. Grâce à une plume légère et précise, exempte des vanités et fioritures usuelles, on prend un vrai et rare plaisir à la lecture, quitte à comprendre que les textes de Fosse, et au passage le théâtre d’aujourd’hui, reçoivent leur lot d’énergies d’autres sources que théâtrales.

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