Lars Nor?n, generally considered Sweden?s greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written over 75 plays. While they are regularly per?formed in Nordic and European countries and have been translated into sev?eral languages, English-language readers were deprived of his major works until 2013, when Chaucer Press Books published Two Plays: And Give Us the Shadows and Autumn and Winter, followed by Three Plays: Demons, Act, and Terminal 3 and then by Blood and War. This volume pre?sents two of Nor?n?s most recent major plays in English that are thematically related, written after the financial collapse of 2008: FRAGMENTE is about what happened to the working class after the collapse, especially how its members?composed of many immigrants hit by layoffs and uncertainty?did their best to live through their often life-threat?ening situation. ?3.31.93. is about a middle class neighborhood in a big city whose citizens?fraught with angst, illness and psychological problems after the financial collapse?both depend upon and avoid each other. In both plays horrific, pointless crimes are committed that seemin
Lars Nor?n, generally considered Sweden?s greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written over 75 plays. While they are regularly per?formed in Nordic and European countries and have been translated into sev?eral languages, English-language readers were deprived of his major works until 2013, when Chaucer Press Books published Two Plays: And Give Us the Shadows and Autumn and Winter, followed by Three Plays: Demons, Act, and Terminal 3 and then by Blood and War. This volume pre?sents two of Nor?n?s most recent major plays in English that are thematically related, written after the financial collapse of 2008: FRAGMENTE is about what happened to the working class after the collapse, especially how its members?composed of many immigrants hit by layoffs and uncertainty?did their best to live through their often life-threat?ening situation. ?3.31.93. is about a middle class neighborhood in a big city whose citizens?fraught with angst, illness and psychological problems after the financial collapse?both depend upon and avoid each other. In both plays horrific, pointless crimes are committed that seemin