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.
A Master Builder
Wallace Shawn's version of Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder Solness, made into a film by Jonathan Demme in 2014 — a film that is an utterly contemporary vision of Ibsen's classic play.
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A Doll's House
Thornton Wilder's scintillating version of Ibsen's classic play.
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Emperor and Galilean
A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.
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By Lucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik IbsenA startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.
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A fresh translation of one of the last great epics of the nineteenth century.
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Ghosts
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Richard EyreRichard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.
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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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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by David EdgarAn enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.
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An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Arthur MillerArthur Miller's version of Ibsen's most explosive play.
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Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre version)
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Richard EyreRichard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her.
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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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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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