This is the second volume in a series that presents plays by Sweden's greatest l
iving playwright in English. Lars Noren is generally considered Sweden's greates
t playwright since August Strindberg. He has written about 75 plays that combine
humor, a powerful emotional impact and the search for new forms of expression,
which are regularly performed throughout the Nordic and European countries. Alth
ough his work has been translated into various languages for the stage, we are e
xclusively publishing Noren's plays in book format in English-a project started
in spring 2013 with Two Plays: And Give Us the Shadows and Autumn and Winter. Th
is volume includes: Demons (1982), a very dark comedy that is an expressionist t
ake on Albee's A Delicate Balance and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, set in a S
tockholm apartment on the eve of a funeral; Act (2000), about a power struggle b
etween a female terrorist on a hunger strike and the doctor who tries to make he
r eat again, set in a German prison; and Terminal 3 (2006), a beautiful, sparse
play set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the
birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their de
ad son.
