Paul Green, Henrik Ibsen
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.
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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