Someone is Going to Come
by Jon Fosse | English Canadian Premiere
Translated from the Norwegian by Harry Lane & Adam Seelig
"21st-century Beckett... played with creepy charm and impeccable comic timing" -GLOBE AND MAIL
"Keen insight and superb acting" -EYE WEEKLY
"An intriguing glimpse into the genius of Fosse" -SCENE CHANGES
“one of the most provocative pens in contemporary theatre” - Globe & Mail
March 13-29, 2009 in Toronto
Featuring Michael Blake, Dwight McFee, Stacie Steadman
Directed by Adam Seelig
Sets & Costumes Jackie Chau (Dora nominee)
Lighting Kate McKay
Stage Management Wendy Lee
Music Ludwig van Beethoven
SYNOPSIS
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 to come”. And sure enough, someone does come, someone whose presence unleashes hidden jealousies that threaten to shatter the couple’s relationship. This all unfolds through Fosse’s distinctively austere lyricism.
JON FOSSE
Jon Fosse (b.1959, Norway) is “one of the most provocative pens in contemporary theatre” (Globe & Mail). He has been “compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity” (New York Times). An even better comparison would be to Harold Pinter and Thomas Bernhard (whose masterpiece, Ritter, Dene, Voss, received its English-language premiere by One Little Goat in 2006). Like Pinter, Fosse is a virtuoso of awkward humour and pregnant pauses; and like Bernhard, he writes down-to-earth dialogue without punctuation, using only line-breaks. Fosse has also offered his own comment on major influences in his work, mentioning a surprising pair: “[Philosopher] Jacques Derrida has meant a great deal to me, but so too has a country artist like Willie Nelson. Both of them have deep insights.” Fosse has written poems, essays, novels, and over thirty plays translated into over forty languages.