Nightsongs

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

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.

Additional text

Painfully absorbing

Product details

• Authors: Jon Fosse, Jon (Author) Fosse, Fosse Jon
• Assisted by: Gregory Motton (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2002
• EAN: 9781840022827
• ISBN: 978-1-84002-282-7
• No. of pages: 72
• Weight: 134 g
• Series: Oberon Modern Plays; Oberon Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Plays / Drama, Plays, Playscripts, Nobel Prize winner