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[...]a number of the productions discussed are between two to four decades old: the work of two great German directors Peter Stein (the landmark Peer Gynt of 1971) and Peter Zadek (the Master Builder of 1983); Massimo Castri's Rosmersholm (1980), Hedda Gabler (1980), and Little Eyolf (1985); In...

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Published in:Ibsen news and comment 2010-01, Vol.30, p.5
Format: Article
Language:English
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Bergman, Ingmar
Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906)
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Summary:[...]a number of the productions discussed are between two to four decades old: the work of two great German directors Peter Stein (the landmark Peer Gynt of 1971) and Peter Zadek (the Master Builder of 1983); Massimo Castri's Rosmersholm (1980), Hedda Gabler (1980), and Little Eyolf (1985); Ingmar Bergman's well-known Ghosts (1989). [...]much of Roberto Alongé and Franco Perrelli's not always coherent "Massimo Castri's first Ibsenian [sic] Productions" (14) is recycled material from Alonge's Il teatro di Massimo Castri (Rome: Bolzoni, 2003). [...]the long performance history of A Doll House records that audiences have responded to Nora, precisely, as "a conscious and thinking human being"; this is the reason that the drama remains Ibsen's most popular play worldwide. According to Gjervan, the Norwegian Ibsen tradition has preferred the subtext to the supertext with the result that "Norwegian Ibsen performers delve into the character's subconscious and act out the psychological aspects of the character rather exclusively - at the cost of [not] portraying the character's intellectual will." Since will, or lack of it, is surely part of a character's "psychology," Gjervan's distinction is unclear.
ISSN:1089-6171