Plays three
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Plays three
(Modern playwrights)
Oberon, 2004
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Mor og barn
Sov du vesle barnet mitt
Ettermiddag
Vakkert
Dødsvariasjonar
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Description based on: Reprinted in 2011
Contents of Works
- Mother and child
- Sleep my baby sleep
- Afternoon
- Beautiful
- Death variations
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon, characters come and go in a flat that is for sale; they will never understand each other; someone will always insist on one thing, while others will insist on something else. In Beautiful, the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. Conflicts simmer when husband and wife punish each other by courting his best friend, while his daughter meets a local boy. Death Variations explores different aspects of the theme of death; death of love, death of relationship, death of happiness, and finally the death of a young person. As the characters in Fosse's plays search for meaning or even just familiarity in their ruptured lives, their struggles find an echo in the rhythms and repetitions of their speech."
by "Nielsen BookData"