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...Shockingly frank for its day, Ibsen’s 1882 drama is haunted by ghosts and brutal on hypocrisy....
...Before David Schwimmer’s acting career took off, he did a series of jobs to make ends meet....
...A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith, London) Tanika Gupta’s clever new version of Ibsen’s seminal play relocated the action from 1870s Norway to 1870s Calcutta, introducing a whole new layer of political...
...Beginning in Oscar Wilde territory, it suddenly swerves into something closer to Ibsen. And beneath the brittle surface lie serious debates about assisted suicide, women’s rights and social hypocrisy....
...At the National Theatre, David Hare’s new version has acquired an extra “t” for the protagonist — Peter Gynt — and relocated to Scotland and a contemporary world in which the word “troll” has acquired new...
...If Shakespeare might be sceptical about matrimony, Ibsen is overtly critical....
...an ambitious staging of David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest, as well as an assortment of new and original work....
...The play is Ibsen-like in its slow revelation of family secrets and in its subtle examination of financial, moral and social debt....
...Some of the plot twists and metaphors are heavy-handed (Aaron’s secret gambling habit, for instance), and the character of David, a wise “high-rater” who has turned his back on this particular rat race,...
...“Upsetting people is the point of theatre,” observed John Malkovich recently about his role in David Mamet’s new play Bitter Wheat (at the Garrick Theatre)....
...Always ready with an uplifting example, Ramsay reminded a chastened David Hare (following a concerned phone call about his first West End foray, Knuckle), that both Ibsen and Chekhov had experienced spectacular...
...David Hare’s 2009 verbatim play The Power of Yes assembled opinion on stage from dozens of experts....
...“It’s far more like Waiting for Godot than Ibsen’s realism or George Bernard Shaw.” Yet of all the playwrights to rough up and restyle, why Chekhov?...
...Belinda McKeon exceeded her original brief by writing not just an adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House but an original play inspired by it....
...If not, like Ellida in Ibsen’s rather Hanseatic Lady from the Sea, we are vulnerable to the lure of salt spray....
...After the rehearsal, we gathered in a circle and Drummond and his director, David Overend, scrutinised our reactions. Their question, in various guises: how did casting those votes make us feel?...
...It’s the ugliness that is most intriguing in Ibsen’s strange, knotty and unwieldy late play The Master Builder....
...Our house is also home to two whippets, Ibsen — for obvious reasons — and Harefossen, who is named after a nearby waterfall....
...Might it fancy a crack at Ibsen? Etchells points out that some plays would struggle on the table-top — particularly those with “handfuls of characters discussing stuff”....
...Here, the Stockmanns are thirtysomething Berlin hipster-bourgeois who are in a lo-fi band with a couple of their journalist friends; we see them rehearsing a laid-back version of David Bowie’s “Changes”....
...Ibsen’s iconic figure holds so much meaning for so many that any attempt to reinvent him is fraught with danger....
...That, in itself, is not a problem: great plays – Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen – are often marinated in misery. But here, alas, it’s not very affecting misery. The small moments do not accumulate....
...Other classics, too, come with a strong sense of setting – your Chekhovs and Ibsens, for example. But new plays are different....
...Peer Gynt, Barbican, London Following on from An Enemy of the People, the Barbican’s mini-season of retakes of Ibsen continues with a staging of his wild epic Peer Gynt....
...And it’s Ibsen again in Public Enemy, better known to most as An Enemy of the People, but tackled here by playwright David Harrower and director Richard Jones with provocative comic zest....
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