About Jon Fosse and the Norwegian New Theatre (Foreword by Sanda Tomescu Baciu)

Introduction

JON FOSSE

THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES

a revolution in science

what is time?

nearness

Bakhtin’s chronotope

ASPECTS OF THE FOSSE’AN DRAMATIC TEXT

the function of silence

the relevance of repetitions

Fosse and the st/age of postdramatic theatre

ceremonies

a poetic dramatic text

space

time

Fosse’an caharacters/ figures

uncertainty and the unknown?

Conclusion

CLOSE READING - THE PLAYS

And We’ll Never be Parted (Og aldri skal vi skiljast)

Sleep my Baby Sleep (Sov du vesle barnet mitt)

Introduction

Sleep my Baby Sleep, the play

Fosse’s characters/ figures

Plot, ceremony or Fosse’an dramatic process

Repetitions and Spacetime in Sleep My Baby Sleep

Space

Time

Text, communication and entanglement

Conclusion on the close-reading of Sleep my Baby Sleep

Fosse’s play Sleep (Svevn)

Shadows (Skuggar)