The Name

A UK Premiere by 2023 Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse.

A family house by the sea. A young pregnant woman sits on a sofa. Her partner enters. Her sister returns. Then her mother. Then the father.

What should be a simple family gathering becomes something quietly unsettling. Questions circle. Silence lingers. The unborn child waits at the centre of the room.

The Name is a haunting and tender exploration of family, of communication withheld, and of the authority of silence. Written during the period in which Jon Fosse received the Norwegian Ibsen Award, the play established him as one of Europe’s most distinctive dramatic voices.

Now brought to London for the first time by Hornsey–Pennell Productions and directed by Simon Usher, who’s work spans The National Theatre, The Royal Court and The West End, this production offers a rare opportunity to encounter Fosse’s major work in an intimate space; a deeply human portrait of belief, doubt and the longing to be seen.

Link to Fosse's Nobel Lecture: nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/12/fosse-lecture-english.pdf

CAST:

Girl - Jasmin Dufa Pitt
Boy - Daf Thomas
Sister - Marie Thorseth Moles
Mother - Valerie Gogan
Father - Tony Bell
Bjarne - Jan Martin