A Summer Day

by Jon Fosse
translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde
directed by Yury Urnov

June 10–29, 2025

Tickets

Experience the haunting beauty of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s A Summer Day, directed by inventive Co-Artistic Director Yury Urnov (Mr. Burns, Minor Character, 12th Night) in a production that delves into the depths of human connection, memory, and existential longing. Is there one day in your past you keep replaying again and again? When do we start spending more time in the past than in the present? Through Fosse’s poetic language and Urnov’s innovative direction and immersive visual design, audiences are transported into an epic and intimate world where past and present intertwine, inviting reflection on the fleeting nature of time and the eternal search for meaning. Often referred to as a modern-day Ibsen, Fosse won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023 – one of the few playwrights to ever receive that honor – and is rarely produced in the United States.

Run Time is approximately 80 minutes with no intermission.

Content Information

This play centers themes of grief, loss and coping with loss. Please contact our box office at tickets@wilmatheater.org if you’d like more details on the nature of grief and loss in this play.

Clickable resources around grief, loss and mental health: The Liv Project, Council for Relationships, Uplift Center for Grieving Children, Nami Philly, William Way Peer Counseling, Text 988 for the National Suicide and Crisis Helpline. 

This play contains moments of fog, haze and flashes of bright light.

A SUMMER DAY MERCH!

Design by A SUMMER DAY Illustrator and Puppet Designer, Ksenya Litvak

View the Digital Video below by Leslie Rivera:

Join our book club

Explore Jon Fosse’s play A SUMMER DAY and novel Morning and Evening – Sunday, June 15th

LEARN MORE ABOUT JON FOSSE

• “Jon Fosse Wants to Say the Unsayable,” the New York Times profile of Fosse, published on the eve of receiving the Nobel Prize in 2023.
• “Translating Jon Fosse Isn’t Just About the Words,” article in American Theatre Magazine about how an American director became a translator, as well as a sort of U.S. ambassador, for Jon Fosse
• “On Translating Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s Works for American Audiences,” a conversation between Sarah Cameron Sunde and Amelia Parenteau. Published on Howlround Theatre Commons in tandem with “Why the American Theatre Needs Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse,” a HowlRound TV event that included a short excerpt of one of Fosse’s plays, thoughts from collaborators on his debut productions in the United States, and reports on the state of international theater in translation in the United States today.

Honorary Producer

Dr. R. J. Wallner 

This production is supported in part by the Norwegian Consulate General in New York

Our digital productions are made possible with generous support from the John S and James L Knight Foundation.

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