JON FOSSE (1959 - )
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Jon Fosse
Child, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse (Barnet) | |||||
| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Girl On The Sofa, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | 1840023260 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse. from a literal translation by Neil Howard and Tonje Gotschalksen | |||||
| Synopsis: | A girl on the verge of adulthood is sitting on a sofa. She is unhappy: she resents her mother and older sister and longs for her absent father, a sailor. What is she going to do with her life? She considers becoming a painter -.A woman approaching middle age is painting a self-portrait. She is watching her younger self: the girl on the sofa. The Girl on the Sofa juxtaposes two stories from the life of one woman and explores the complex interweaving of the past with the present. | |||||
Guitar Man, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "Fosse Plays One", Oberon Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse (Gitarmannen) | |||||
| Synopsis: | a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. | |||||
Henrik Ibsen+Jon Fosse:Norway Meets New York:deathvariations |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Oslo Elsewhere | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | This is a new play by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's leading modern playwrights. (His Night Sings Its Songs was presented here a couple of seasons back.) deathvariations tells the story of a how a mother finds herself through the loss of her child. The play b | |||||
Meanwhile The Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | A sad, simple and beautiful play about the breakdown of two relationships, and the formation of a new one. | |||||
Name, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse (Namnet) | |||||
| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Night Sings Its Songs |
| 1st Produced: | Cultural Project, New York | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | A frustrated writer becomes agoraphobic and is jealous of his wife. She goes out on the town with a female friend - but it is really another young man. His awkward parents come to visit their new grandchild. | |||||
Nightsongs |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 2002 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words which no one reads and she takes a lover. | |||||
Purple |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Lyceum Youth Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 4 teenage rock musicians | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | Entrenched in the vaults of a disused factory four members of a teenage band meet to rehearse. Deep, dark and oppressive a subtle but revealing journey of unspoken tension, hidden emotion and adolescent rivalry | |||||
SA KA LA |
| 1st Produced: | The Green Room, NY | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Oslo Elsewhere | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | SA KA LA takes place in a moment of crisis within a family when some of its members know a piece of bad news while the others have yet to hear about it. A mother has fallen victim to a stroke on her 60th birthday, and it takes her three grown children, Nora, Hilde, and Ola completely by surprise. Meanwhile, the rest of the family can't be reached as they wait for her party to begin. "Sa Ka La" is not a Norwegian phrase. It's some of the unformed words the Mother makes after suffering her stroke - nytheatre.com | |||||
Someone Is Going To Come |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 3 | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse (Nokon kjem til a komme) | |||||
| Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Warm |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Presence | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | A house, a pier, an ocean. Two men lingering at the edge of the sea. They wait for the woman they can barely recall but will never forget. As forgotten memories and secret desires once more float to the surface, so too does a love story in all its beautiful and heartbreaking forms. Jon Fosse is Europe's most prolific and most performed living playwright. He has been likened to 'Ibsen for a new generation and this play is no exception. This is a play of tender precision, a dreamscape, a play stripped down to its emotional essentials, a play for our age and for the people we have become. | |||||
Winter |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | A 40-ish woman, dressed in too-youthful urban gear and white high heels, talks to a man whose drab trenchcoat and clunky briefcase signify "middle-management nobody". Her clothes mark her out as a prostitute, but the dialogue is heightened enough to make this feel like more than a pick-up. He takes her to his hotel room and she strips down to her bra and panties, but things don't go further. We find out he is married, but are not confident that this is what holds him back. Karen Fricker, The Guardian | |||||