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After a long time, a girl returns home to her family for the first time - she is heavily pregnant and is accompanied by the father of her future child. Although the family has not seen each other for a long time, nothing happens. Nobel Prize winner for literature and magician of silence Jon Fosse depicts a family reunion as a madhouse of uneventfulness. And he creates music from silence, a rhythm of silence and short sentences. Wild poetic simplicity creates an almost infinite space for thoughts, for wonder and doubt, which Kay Voges brings to the stage.
"You can hug me. It will be beautiful, you'll see."
After a long time, a girl returns home to her family for the first time - heavily pregnant, she is accompanied by the father of her future child. The family has not seen each other for a long time, and hardly anything has changed since the last visit. The mother is ill, the father gives the girl money, the sister is constantly looking for someone to play cards with - but no one in the family asks the name of the friend who sits in the corner and reads books. Nothing happens.
Almost nothing. Apparently nothing. Because there is silence. And Jon Fosse is its greatest magician. With this family reunion, he depicts a madhouse of uneventfulness and challenges us to allow our own visions. It is more a rhythm of silence and short sentences. Wild poetic simplicity creates an almost infinite space for thoughts, for wonder and doubt. Because it is a delicate world that is revealed, and Fosse gives you time to look at it without any pressure. And finally, we can see that it is our world. That of our daily experiences, which are shown to us with the utmost precision: each and every one of us, without exception, is in a crisis and is looking for meaning - for what it actually means to be alive.
Jon Fosse indirectly brings up another topic: communication. Communication has never been easier than it is today, over almost any distance, with basically every other person in the world. But how does the exchange with the person directly in front of us take place under the media conditions of our present? Everyone is talking to each other - but do they understand each other? The cosmos is getting smaller and smaller, but is everyone in it actually for themselves and alone? In the end, the question naturally arises as to what death could be. Finding hope in despair - that might be one way to look to the next day.
Jon Fosse gives us this very hope for what will happen next, and thus opens up a way out of gloom and great sadness. He gives "a voice to the unspeakable", as it is also stated in the justification for the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 2023.
Subject to change.
"You can hug me. It will be beautiful, you'll see."
After a long time, a girl returns home to her family for the first time - heavily pregnant, she is accompanied by the father of her future child. The family has not seen each other for a long time, and hardly anything has changed since the last visit. The mother is ill, the father gives the girl money, the sister is constantly looking for someone to play cards with - but no one in the family asks the name of the friend who sits in the corner and reads books. Nothing happens.
Almost nothing. Apparently nothing. Because there is silence. And Jon Fosse is its greatest magician. With this family reunion, he depicts a madhouse of uneventfulness and challenges us to allow our own visions. It is more a rhythm of silence and short sentences. Wild poetic simplicity creates an almost infinite space for thoughts, for wonder and doubt. Because it is a delicate world that is revealed, and Fosse gives you time to look at it without any pressure. And finally, we can see that it is our world. That of our daily experiences, which are shown to us with the utmost precision: each and every one of us, without exception, is in a crisis and is looking for meaning - for what it actually means to be alive.
Jon Fosse indirectly brings up another topic: communication. Communication has never been easier than it is today, over almost any distance, with basically every other person in the world. But how does the exchange with the person directly in front of us take place under the media conditions of our present? Everyone is talking to each other - but do they understand each other? The cosmos is getting smaller and smaller, but is everyone in it actually for themselves and alone? In the end, the question naturally arises as to what death could be. Finding hope in despair - that might be one way to look to the next day.
Jon Fosse gives us this very hope for what will happen next, and thus opens up a way out of gloom and great sadness. He gives "a voice to the unspeakable", as it is also stated in the justification for the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 2023.
Subject to change.
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