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I don't know what it is that always makes something happen
But it must be something Because something always happens I don't want anything to happen and then something happens all the same
They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover.
About the author
Jon Fosse is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2023. Jon Fosse’s work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into more than forty languages. Methuen Drama publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), Plays Three (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, Death Variations), Plays Four (And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly’s Wing, Warm, Telemakos, Sleep), Nightsongs, The Girl on the Sofa and I Am The Wind. Fosse was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010.
Summary
A play by the poet and playwright Jon Fosse. This version is translated for the stage by playwright Gregory Motton. Two lovers have conflicting interests when they have a child together.
Foreword
A play by the poet and playwright Jon Fosse. This version is translated for the stage by playwright Gregory Motton. Two lovers have conflicting interests when they have a child together.
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Painfully absorbing
