CANADIAN PREMIERE | DRAMA
Written by Jon Fosse (in English translation)
Directed by Peter Hinton-Davis
Cast and full creative team will be announced soon.
Suzannah
From Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse—Norway’s master playwright, poet, and novelist—comes Suzannah, an intimate and lyrical portrait of Henrik Ibsen’s remarkable wife.
Three Suzannahs—young, middle-aged, and old—share the stage, weaving memory, longing, and wit into a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of genius.
A rare English-language premiere and a coup for Here For Now audiences, Suzannah invites us inside the mind of a woman history nearly forgot.
Summer Season
August 19th - 30th 2026
Opening August 21st
Suzannah is supported by these wonderful people:
Show Sponsor: Claire Bickley and Mark Yakabuski
Performance Supporters: The Leonor and friends
Meet the Team
Jon Fosse, Playwright
Jon Fosse was born 1959 in Haugesund on the Norwegian west coast. His immense œuvre written in Nynorsk Norwegian and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, short stories, poetry, essays, children’s books, and translations. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world.
Jon Fosse has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Hedda Award, the most prestigious award in Norwegian theatre, and Austria’s Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Play. In 2005 Jon Fosse was made a Commander in the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and in 2007 he was made a Knight in France’s National Order of Merit. Jon Fosse was awarded the International Ibsen Award in 2010, the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.
Peter Hinton-Davis, Director
Peter Hinton-Davis has directed over 250 projects for theatre and opera since 1984. Past directing credits include: Major Barbara, The Shadow of a Doubt, An Octoroon, Pygmalion, (Shaw Festival), Powers and Gloria, (Blyth Festival), A Doll’s House, (Segal Centre), The Hooves Belonged to the Deer by Makram Ayache (Tarragon/In Arms Collective), Das Rheingold, (Edmonton Opera), Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright/Daniel MacIvor (Canadian Opera Company).
Peter was Artistic Director of English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre (2005-2012). He is the recipient of numerous Canadian theatre awards, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2009.
Full creative team and cast will be announced soon…