The Girl on the Sofa

A girl on the verge of adulthood is sitting on a sofa. She is unhappy: she resents her mother and older sister and longs for her absent father, a sailor. What is she going to do with her life? She considers becoming a painter...A woman approaching middle age is painting a self-portrait. She is watching her younger self: the girl on the sofa. The Girl on the Sofa juxtaposes two stories from the life of one woman and explores the complex interweaving of the past with the present. It is a new play by Norway's leading playwright Jon Fosse. His intense, poetic and often disturbing writing probes and lays bare human emotions. The Girl on the Sofa is given its world premiere in a version by acclaimed Scots playwright David Harrower, at the Royal Lyceum Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2002.


Genre: Historical