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The Girl on the Sofa

Jon Fosse

A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life...

Jon Fosse's new play, and this English version by David Harrower, were commissioned by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publish Date: Oct 8th, 2002
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.50in - 0.22in - 0.28lb
  • EAN: 9781840023268
  • Categories: European - ScandinavianEuropean - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Fosse, Jon: - 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.

Praise for this book

"Brilliant - Paradoxically, it creates something of great aesthetic beauty out of a work that deals with painter's block" --Guardian