Synopses & Reviews
I Am The Wind is a tale of enduring humanity against insurmountable odds. Two lifelong traveling companions are bound together on a journey across a vast ocean. At once moving and comic, this new work by one of Europes most widely performed playwrights dramatizes the endless struggle to be human.
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[an] outstanding version
This is a high point of the Young Vics 40th anniversary season.”
The StageFosse jettisons all the conventional rules of drama
seems like a meditation on language
the play grips because it appeals to something fundamental: it shows two cornered human beings in an extreme situation and demonstrates the power of love. [a] hypnotic production... cryptically haunting” 4 stars Michael BillingtonThe Guardian
[it] exerts a beguiling, hypnotic pull
[the [production is] unusual, extraordinary, weird, and beautiful
must see” 4 stars - Michael Coveneywhatsonstage.com
Fosses subject is the human condition, and this sparsely written play pares down the question of existence to its bare essentials
Chéreaus production is a masterclass in minimalism, perfectionism and maybe a dozen other isms. Who cares? It tells Fosses story wonderfully well
colloquial and poetic.. Go on, give it a go!”The Arts Desk
Synopsis
Play from 2010 Ibsen Award winning writer to be directed by Cannes Jury Prize winner Paul Chéreau.
Synopsis
The wind gathers, rising up suddenly.
Two men on a fragile boat, a trip to sea - a few drinks, a bite to eat - when one of them decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are: among the distant islands, the threatening fog and gathering swell of the sea, bound together on an odyssey into the unknown.
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 forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Nightsongs and The Girl on the Sofa, and his other plays in the following collections: Plays One, Plays Two, Plays Three, Plays Four and Plays Five. Plays Six is forthcoming in 2012.
Oberon Books also publishes The Luminous Darkness: The Theatre of Jon Fosse by Leif Zern (translated by Ann Henning-Jocelyn).