Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop of a looming election, an atmosphere of uncertainty and a bloodthirsty press. In the grand house of an influential dynasty, John Rosmer holds the future in his hands. As he wanders the line between idealism and a painful past, he finds himself ever more torn.
Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop of a looming election, an atmosphere of uncertainty and a bloodthirsty press. In the grand house of an influential dynasty, John Rosmer holds the future in his hands. As he wanders the line between idealism and a painful past, he finds himself ever more torn.
Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) has been described as 'the father of
modern theatre'. Most of his early plays were traditional
historical dramas. After 'Peer Gynt', a fairy-tale fantasy in
verse, Ibsen wrote the rest of his plays in prose, and came to be
regarded as the great Naturalist dramatist.
Duncan Macmillan's work has been performed throughout the world,
including at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Barbican,
St Ann's Warehouse, Melbourne Theatre Company, Berliner Ensemble,
Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Schauspielhaus Ko ln, Burgtheater Vienna,
Vesturport, Kansallisteatteri, Nationaltheatret Oslo and in the
repertory of the Schaubuhne Berlin, as well as the Edinburgh
Festival, the Manchester International Festival, Salzburg Festival,
Festival d'Avignon and Theatertreffen, in the West End and on
Broadway. His plays include Lungs; People, Places and Things; Every
Brilliant Thing; Rosmersholm (adapt. Henrik Ibsen); 1984 (adapt.
George Orwell, co-written and co-directed with Robert Icke); City
Of Glass (adapt. Paul Auster) and 2071 (co-written with Chris
Rapley), all published by Oberon Books. Other plays include The
Forbidden Zone; Wunschloses Ungluck (adapt. Peter Handke); Reise
Durch die Nacht (adapt. Friederike Mayro cker). Both 1984 and
People, Places and Things were nominated for Best New Play at the
Olivier Awards.
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