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Fosse Plays Volume Five: Suzannah, Living Secretly, the Dead Dogs, a Red Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos, Sleep (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
[Paperback - 2011]
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Category: Literature
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Publisher: Oberon Books | ISBN: 9781849430746 | Pages: 368
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Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly s Wings, Warm, Telemakos and Sleep

In their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a common concept of time. The past is recreated through present moments, the future hinted at through shared memories, yet experienced from different perspectives. Fosse’s drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters’ relationships.

The whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting husband to come home. In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a young woman and a young man as they grow into middle-age and old age. Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open up to one’s actions through sequences of time. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future. Warm’s characters move back and forth through time to capture past images and actions, in an effort to make sense of the present. Telemakos reinvents an old classic from a contemporary point of view. Fosse’s damatic voice is full of poetic intensity, yet wryly ironic, and with a sense of the comedy of the human condition.

Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, Telemakos, Sleep and A Red Butterfly s Wings.

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 Mérite of France in 2007 and received TheInternational Ibsen Award in 2010.

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