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Showing posts with label Henrik Ibsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henrik Ibsen. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 February 2019

Theatre Review: August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death, Classic Stage Company, NYC

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A couple, Edgar and Alice, approach their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in a marriage based on mutual hatred and co-dependenc...
Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Theatre Review: The Father, August Strindberg, Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn, New York

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Two weeks ago, I reviewed director Jeffery Horowitz’s production of Ibsen’s 1879 A Doll’s House at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brook...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

Theatre Review: A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen, Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn, New York

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In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism , Toril Moi writes that Nora, protagonist of his 1879 A Doll’s House begins ‘ by being a Hegeli...
Sunday, 7 February 2016

Review: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, And Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869-1922, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn

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This weekend the Secret Victorianist returned to one of the first museums I visited on moving to New York—the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Broo...
Sunday, 24 January 2016

Theatre Review: Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, Bottoms Dream, Theater 54, New York City

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The first time I saw Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 Hedda Gabler on stage was at the Old Vic in London in 2012. And it’s hard to imagine a starker co...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Theatre Review: Creditors, August Strindberg, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, New York City

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August Strindberg’s Creditors is a stark, brutal and intensely modern play, first performed in 1889. It’s a play without embellishment a...
Monday, 25 November 2013

Theatre Review: Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen, Almeida Theatre, London

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Poster images for Ghosts One preoccupation which has united all four performances of Ibsen plays I’ve been lucky enough to see ove...