Dette er ikke oss ebok
It’s summer, it’s morning, and we’re out of muesli. MY MOTHER, MY FATHER, MY SISTER and MY BROTHER wake up to what might seem like a normal day. But where am I? And how do you handle reality when something unreal has happened?Monica Isakstuen’s new play pounces on the home as an electric minefield caught between safety and tyranny. It deals with grief and loss, the roles we have throughout life, …
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Monica Isakstuen’s new play pounces on the home as an electric minefield caught between safety and tyranny. It deals with grief and loss, the roles we have throughout life, about the relationships and constellations of which we are a part, and which are us, yet are not. In This Isn’t Us we follow a family through one dramatic day where the dividing line between love and loathing, sorrow and ecstasy becomes blurred. What is a nightmare and what is reality? It isn’t always clear.
The play was commissioned for Den Nationale Scene, with its Norwegian premiere on 26 January 2022.
MY FATHER
What about the kids?
MY MOTHER
We don’t own them
MY FATHER
They’re not my kids
MY MOTHER
No
MY FATHER
They’re not my kids
or don’t they exist?
MY MOTHER
We could just as well say they don’t exist
if it makes things easier for you
MY SISTER
We don’t exist?
MY MOTHER
No
MY BROTHER
I exist!
MY FATHER
Sorry about this, my boy
MY SISTER
If he doesn’t exist
then he can’t be your boy
MY BROTHER
Mum?
Aren’t you going to say anything?
MY MOTHER
I’ve got nothing to say
MY BROTHER
But we’re sitting here, you see that, right?
We’re here, Mum
right in front of your eyes!
MY FATHER
You heard what she said
You don’t exist
