Ibsen said his dramatic poem "Peer Gynt" could never be staged. Those are fighting words for David Schweizer, who adapted it for the stage and is directing at the La Jolla Playhouse. We'll talk with ...
Peer Gynt Every summer since 1928, the Peer Gynt Festival draws huge crowds to the shores of Norway's Lake Gala to observe Ibsen's birthday with an outdoor production of his monumental 1867 verse play ...
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A little boy who refuses to grow up is at the core of the bold, intriguing production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre. Think of Peer as an existentialist Peter Pan or ...
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Peer Gynt is a poster boy for the self-centered. He's an immature, insecure, loudmouth braggart who lies to his mother and abuses women. When he sails off into the world to prove himself worthy, he ...
A bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premières as the fourth production of the Everyman Company 2018, as Dead Heavy Fantastic writer Robert Farquhar returns with new Liverpool work The Big I ...
The North Dakota State University Little Country Theatre didn't choose the easy way to close its 92nd season. The company is tackling Henrik Ibsen's whimsical "Peer Gynt," a play that's famously hard ...
There is no way in hell to stage "Peer Gynt" in a way that would make Ibsen's monumental epic drama accessible to anyone who didn't grow up on the fabulous legend of this Norwegian folk hero. But ...