Overview

A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life. The Girl on the Sofa is a translation of a play by Norway's greatest living writer, Jon Fosse. Translated here by Socttish playwright David Harrower and originally produced at Edinburgh's prestigious Traverse Theatre.