The Luminous Darkness: On Jon Fosse's Theatre

by Leif Zern (Author), translatedbyAnnHenningJocelyn (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $29.31

  When Jon Fosse had his playwright debut with And We Shall Never Part at the National Theatre in Bergen in 1994, he was already an established author of several novels, collections of poetry and children's books. Since his breakthrough in 1996 with the world premiere of Someone Will Arrive at the Norwegian Theatre he has written over twenty more plays and has become the world's most performed contemporary European playwright. Oberon Books publishes Nightsongs, The Girl on the Sofa and I Am the Wind, together with his other plays in five collections. Fosse was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Merite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010. The Luminous Darkness is a book about award winning writer Jon Fosse's writing for the theatre, examining the attraction of audiences, actors and directors to these exceptional dramas. Leif Zern finds his way to the core of the dramatic world created by Fosse, analysing the basic insights on which his writing is based and describing the way various European directors and theatres have chosen to stage his plays.