Fosse: Plays Five

Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly''s Wings, Warm, Telemakos and SleepIn their different ways, these plays 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.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