Nightsongs

They have a child and life changes. He can''t go out and she can''t stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. "I don''t know what it is/ that always make something happen/ But it must be something/ because something always happens/ I don''t want anything to happen/ and then something/ happens all the same."

Jon Fosse’s work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into more than forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), Plays Three (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, Death Variations), Plays Four (And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, Living Secretly, 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 Chevalier of the Ordre national du Merite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010. Gregory Motton’s plays include A Message for the Broken Hearted, The Terrible VOice of Satan, Looking at You (revived) Again, Lazy Brien, Ambulance and Downfall, all published by Oberon.