
The Luminous Darkness
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'Since the early 1990s, Jon Fosse's plays have been produced in countless venues internationally, and have been translated into dozens of languages - winning awards, inspiring critical adulation, and intriguing and inspiring theatregoers throughout the world. Strangely, however, his work remains largely unknown to English-speaking audiences - an oversight that Leif Zern's The Luminous Darkness will do much to redress. In twelve short chapters, the book explores Fosse's career, offering a lucid and insightful argument that is enriched by Zern's intimate knowledge of the plays in production. The result is an important and timely study of a playwright who demands and deserves our attention.' - Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland Galway
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Ann Henning Jocelyn is an author and translator of numerous books and plays. Her English translations of plays by Jon Fosse have won her much acclaim.
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 Merite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Entrance
- 2. From Page to Stage
- 3. The Contemporary Stage
- 4. The ABC of Waiting
- 5. Coming and Going
- 6. In The Beginning was The House
- 7. A Prince without a Sword
- 8. The Dead Mother
- 9. The Wind Blows where it Will
- 10. Near and Yet So Far
- 11. In The World
- 12. Exit
- Sources
- Bibliography
- World Premieres
- Index
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