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Peer Gynt (Green)

Full-Length Play  /  12w, 8m

Paul Green, Henrik Ibsen

Adapted by Paul Green

Peer Gynt is a wild, imaginative young man who journeys from outcast among the wanton and disposessed only to realize no man can exist isolated and bereft of humanity. Peer Gynt is Ibsen's grand-scale pageant on the existential questions of mankind. This version by playwright Paul Green pr…

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Peer Gynt is a wild, imaginative young man who journeys from outcast among the wanton and disposessed only to realize no man can exist isolated and bereft of humanity. Peer Gynt is Ibsen's grand-scale pageant on the existential questions of mankind. This version by playwright Paul Green premiered in New York in 1951 under the direction of Lee Strasberg under the auspices of ANTA.
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Paul Green

Paul Green
Paul Green (1894–1981) received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for In Abraham's Bosom. Other works include Johnny Johnson (music by Kurt Weill), the stage play of Richard Wright's Native Son, and The Lost Colony – his first of 17 symphonic outdoor dramas. A prolific writer in al ...
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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

At age 23, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) became theatre director and resident playwright of the new National Theatre at Bergen, charged with creating a national drama. He directed the Norwegian Theatre in Kristiana from 1857 to 1863, when the theatre went bankrupt. He then set off ...

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