Vent fort

Written in 2021, Vent fort marks Jon Fosse's return to theater, after ten years devoted to Septologie, his monster novel. "I've never written like this before. I'd say it was a dream I put on paper, with a nightmarish dimension." (Jon Fosse, Écrire, c'est écouter : entretiens avec Gabriel Dufay, 2023, L'Arche)

Three voices traverse this stage poem, speaking to each other without always hearing each other. As if sprung from the past, Man returns home after a long absence. He finds himself in a new apartment, where the Woman has moved. A young man interrupts them on his way home. Around this strange love triangle, time and space disintegrate. In their fourteenth-floor apartment, the wind blows and the window slowly falls into the void. A poem about love and solitude, but also about time and the mystery of existence, Vent fort leads us to presences beyond the real.