A girl sits on a sofa not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and
envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father a seaman. A middle-aged woman
paints a portrait of herself as a young girl sitting on a sofa but she's beginning to doubt
her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead
father she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life. Jon Fosse's new
play and this English version by David Harrower were commissioned by the Traverse Theatre
Edinburgh.
