Synopsis
Fosse - Plays Five - Suzannah & Living Secretly & Dead Dogs & Telemakos & More

Published by Oberon
In their different ways, the plays in this Collection are existential suspense stories, centred around a common concept of time
The past is recreated through present moments, the future hinted at through shared memories, yet experienced from different perspectives
Fosse's drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters' relationships
In Suzannah, the whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting husband to come home
In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a young woman and a young man as they grow into middle-age and old age
Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open up to one's actions through sequences of time
In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future
Warm's characters move back and forth through time to capture past images and actions, in an effort to make sense of the present
Telemakos re-invents an old classic from a contemporary point of view
Fosse's dramatic voice is full of poetic intensity, yet wryly ironic, and with a sense of the comedy of the human condition