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Jon Fosse: Einkvan

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“A stunning Fosse piece that hits you right in the face.” – NRK

“One of Fosse’s best works. It’s a text that can be both performed and read in countless ways… Kjersti Horn makes “Einkvan” a dark, erotic and unforgettable production.” – Aftenposten

A new play from 2024 Nobel Prize-winner Jon Fosse. Directed by Hedda Award winner Kjersti Horn.

Einkvan (Everyman) is a beautiful hybrid of contemporary art and theatre in which the actors, extraordinarily, cannot see the audience. Elegantly interlocking the intimacy of film with the immediacy of live theatre, two cameras vividly capture every intimate moment in extreme close-up.

Fosse takes you to the heart of the longing for companionship, and the sorrow and powerlessness of not being able to reach those we are closest to – our immediate family. It is about the courage to love and forgive yourself and others.

A young man meets another young man who resembles him quite a bit. An older man meets another older man who looks like him. And an older woman meets someone who’s a lot like her. Are they different people or alter-egos?

They are a father, a mother and a grown son. The son wants nothing to do with the parents. They look for him but he does not want to be found.

“In true Fosse fashion, there’s a tension that resonates between the lines. An intriguing ambiguity between what is said and what is left unsaid, leaving it up to the audience to fill in the rest.” – Vårt Land

A strong directorial vision that points towards a new and exciting chapter in the history of the Norwegian Theatre, Einkvan had its world premiere in Oslo on April 25, 2024.

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Kjersti Horn is a Norwegian theater director, educated at the Dramatiska Institute in Stockholm. Her interpretation of Hamlet (Rogaland Teater 2014) received the Hedda Prize in 2015.

Horn is concerned with outsiders, something she often features in her work, whether staging classics or newly written plays.

She has been behind a long series of critically acclaimed and award-nominated performances. For her direction of Styrtet engel (Nationaltheatret 2013) she was nominated for the Critics’ Prize , and for the previously mentioned Hamlet, as well as Kaos er neighbor til Gud (Nationaltheatret 2016), Valden’s story (Det Norske Teatret 2017), Heritage and environment (Den Nationale Scene 2018) and Scenes from a marriage (Rogaland Teater 2019) she received Hedda nominations in the category for best direction.

Hers I was Fritz Moen (Riksteatret in collaboration with Teater Manu 2012), Natten er dagens mor (Nationaltheatret in collaboration with Riksteatret 2015), Burnt (Den Nationale Scene 2015), En folkefiende (Rogaland Teater 2017) and Arv og miljø were also all nominated for the Hedda prize.

From 2015 to 2019, Horn was resident director at the National Theatre, and since 2020 she has been resident director at Det Norske Teatret. From 2025, she will take over as Artistic Director at the same location.

 

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable“.

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