The Vaughans are all set to enjoy Christmas. Thomas has been promoted and Nora is delighted. Everything at last seems to be going right, until a visitor arrives uninvited and causes them to question just how perfect their marriage is. Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House caused outrage both in its style and subject matter when first staged in 1879. Zinnie Harriss retelling is played against the backdrop of British politics at the turn of the last century - to revel a world where duty, power and hypocrisy rule. Zinnie Harriss version of A Dolls House premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2009.
A thrilling version of Ibsens epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.Made Emperor in Rome, Julian attempts to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor, Constantius. And in arousing the Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his intent.Ibsens little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilisation. Completed and published in 1873, Emperor and Galilean was premiered in Leipzig in 1896.This newly created version by Ben Power was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in June 2011, marking the first time that Emperor and Galilean had been performed on the stage in English. The production was directed by Jonathan Kent, with Andrew Scott as the Emperor Julian, and Ian McDiarmid as Maximus.
John Gabriel Borkman, wealthy, powerful, revered, sacrificed love for success and was handsomely rewarded. Now, disgraced and destitute after financial scandal and a jail sentence, he paces out each day alone, planning his comeback. Downstairs, his wife, Gunhild, lives a parallel existence, plotting for their son to restore the familys reputation. But with the arrival of Gunhilds twin sister Ella, the woman whose love Borkman gave away, the claustrophobic stasis is shattered once and for all.
In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsens most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century. Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is projected into a freewheeling modern world of music, dance, poetry, weddings, coronations, trolls and two-headed children as Peter steals a bride and embarks on an extraordinary lifetimes journey before returning home, finally, to Scotland. David Hares Peter Gynt posits the same fundamental question the great Norwegian asked in 1867: does a belief in individualism help or hinder us in trying to live purposefully in the present day? The play opens at the National Theatre in July 2019 and transfers to the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, for the Edinburgh International Festival.
Considerado unánimemente por toda la crítica literaria especializada como el padre de la dramaturgia realista moderna y uno de los renovadores del teatro universal, sus excelentes obras no han perdido vigencia en todos estos años y se siguen representando constantemente con exito en los teatros de todo el mundo.Sus obras cuestionaban claramente el modelo de familia y sociedad imperantes en su epoca, en la que la sociedad, dominada por los valores victorianos vigentes, las considero escandalosas e indignas de su tiempo. Casa de muñecas lo convirtio en un abanderado del feminismo y origino una fuerte polemica que acabo en autentico escandalo, por considerar muchos la obra como un ataque frontal a la institucion de la familia. Una heroina fuerte e independiente en contraste con un marido debil que se aferra a su papel, y que decide dejar su, en apariencia, prospero matrimonio a causa de su discrepancia con el rol subordinado que esta destinada a tener en el.
