Henrik Ibsen
Born in Norway in 1828, Ibsen began his writing career with romantic history plays influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller. In 1851 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the newly established Norwegian Theatre in Bergen with a contract to write a play a year for five years, following which he was made Artistic Director of the Norwegian Theatre in what is now Oslo. In the 1860s he moved abroad to concentrate wholly on writing. He began with two mighty verse dramas, Brand and Peer Gynt, and in the 1870s and 1880s wrote the sequence of realistic ‘problem’ plays for which he is best known, among them A Doll’s House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler and Rosmersholm. His last four plays, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken, dating from his return to Norway in the 1890s, are increasingly overlaid with symbolism. Illness forced him to retire in 1900, and he died in 1906 after a series of crippling strokes.
Little Eyolf
Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre.
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By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Thornton WilderThornton Wilder's scintillating version of Ibsen's classic play.
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The Lady from the Sea
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Elinor CookIbsen's moving play about duty and self-determination, relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s.
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By Cordelia Lynn Original author Henrik IbsenA reworking of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, asking what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history.
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By Stef Smith Original author Henrik IbsenA bold new version of Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood.
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By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Lucinda CoxonA gripping version of Ibsen's most contemporary play, first performed at the Bridge Theatre, London, in 2022.
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Ibsen's provocative play about truth in a society driven by power and money, given a startling contemporary spin in Thomas Ostermeier and Florian Borchmeyer's acclaimed version, here in an English translation by Duncan Macmillan.
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