Fosse: Plays Two
Published on 17. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-84002-384-8 (ISBN)
Description
Includes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and Winter
These three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm.
In a series of continuous but chronologically distinct scenes, Dream of Autumn shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family.
In Winter a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up his family and career, he realises may have mistaken her intentions.
These three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm.
In a series of continuous but chronologically distinct scenes, Dream of Autumn shows a man unexpectedly meeting an old friend: she will become his second wife, and cause him to fall out with his family.
In Winter a fascinating but mercurial woman tries to seduce a businessman, but once he has given up his family and career, he realises may have mistaken her intentions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 130 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84002-384-8 (9781840023848)
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Jon Fosse's work includes novels, poetry, essays andbooks for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into more thanforty languages. Oberon Books publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), PlaysThree (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, DeathVariations), Plays Four (And We'll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhilethe Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, LivingSecretly, 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 Chevalierof the Ordre national du Merite of France in 2007 and received TheInternational Ibsen Award in 2010.