Methuen Drama, 2024

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...A Red Butterfly’s Wings is a brief sketch on politics and society...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In A Summer’s Day, an old widow remembers the day, many years before, when her husband went out to sea in a terrible storm and never returned. Two old friends reunite in a play where the action takes place in two time periods. It revives...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...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...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...A woman sits waiting for her husband/lover to come home. She contemplates the long hours of sepa-ration, his dalliance with a younger woman, his return and their conversations. Reality, memories and imagination run seamlessly...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In Beautiful, the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. The man meets an old friend who used to play in a band with him and they renew their friendship. Their earlier rivalry...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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...In Christmas Tree Song, a man celebrates Christmas alone and reflects on his life in a somewhat ironic way as he attempts to put up a Christmas tree...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Once upon a time, the couple was young, newlywed, and optimistic, but they weren’t able to live together. Many years later, a terrible tragedy – their daughter’s suicide – forces them to meet again. Through rapid shifts between past...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Dream of Autumn is a love story and a family drama. In a seemingly serendipitous moment, a man and a woman meet in a graveyard. They knew one another in a past life, and perhaps carried a longing for each another. A whole new...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...There is a sense of otherness in Fosse’s work that challenges our notions of a concept such as ‘freedom’. This play questions if freedom, as we often understand it, is perhaps a prison...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In the play we meet six people: three women and three men. The play is an examination of our collective weaknesses and the fragility of children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear. Oscillating between humour...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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...Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open up to one’s actions through sequences of time...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...The short play Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black displays Fosse’s characteristic compression of theatrical time and space at its most concentrated. Here, Fosse explores the dilemmas of an errant husband, his young...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...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. The characters are two people...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...An elderly couple are making their way up towards a distant mountaintop they’ve always wanted to climb together. Now they do it for the first time. But is it also for the last time? And do they see the same images on their way to the top...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Two people. One finds it difficult to speak, the other attempts to understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? We meet an old couple in their transition between life and death. They are ready for their journey...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...In Sea, a group of people are gathered in a kind of limbo, on a ship, disappearing into something unknown...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Could life have been different if you made other choices? This question is addressed in Sleep, where we meet ten people with different hopes and dreams. Their lives become interwoven in an apartment...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association, they try to decipher their predicament. As is common in Fosse’s plays, the characters don’t have names...

Methuen Drama, 2002

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Someone is Going to Come (Nokon kjem til å komme) involves a man and a woman who move to an old, run-down house in the middle of nowhere in order to be alone together. From the beginning, however, they grow anxious that “someone is going...

Methuen Drama, 2024

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Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Suzannah is a play inspired by the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and his wife. In this play, we see the whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolding while she waits for her playwriting husband to come home. Based...