We see Hamsun sitting on a chair in the middle of the stage the rest of the stage is in near-darkness. Still elegant, amused, intrigued, but not so involved with Hamsun. Still frustrated, confused, but capable of telling insights about her husband.īergljot. An old, bald man, worn out, cynical and detached, but capable of sudden fire, and of every kind of disgust. Great Norwegian writer and Nazi sympathizer. I was pleased to see my little play mentioned in Hamsun-nytt, Number 4, 2004-the newsletter of the Knut Hamsun Society in Hamarøy, Norway. It was written long before the appearance of that wonderful Swedish-Norwegian movie that features Max von Sydow as Hamsun. “We’re glad you survived-and what else is new?” I hope you like my little piece on Knut Hamsun. Or an even better opera libretto, but who produces new opera in Canada? Thanks to Maureen Labonté, I did once get a workshop at the NAC, but saying you’ve had a piece workshopped is like saying you’ve been in and out of a Gulag. It would make a fine radio drama, I think. A few years ago I wrote a pretty good piece called “Nirvana,” about a “sixties” North American woman returning to Nepal and encountering something very strange. Connections with theatre are practically a must, and I have had very few, although I love both theatre and film. Trouble is, drama is not written in a vacuum. I have often been told that I ought to write more drama.
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