Jon Fosse: Einkvan

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.