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 ...

Alberta Ballet will be bringing in Romanian choreographer Edward Clug for its production of Peer Gynt, one of the highlights ...

Find out more about composer Grieg and his piece In the Hall of the Mountain King in this animated film using the piece and ...

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Peer Gynt is bad news. The protagonist of Henrik Ibsen’s iconic 19th-century play abducts a bride from her groom and consumes cow-pie, if served in a gold bowl. A Norwegian trader without scruples, he ...

“My play begins where Ibsen’s Peer Gynt ends,” says Deepan Sivaraman, director of the 19th-century play’s eponymous adaptation, written by Henrik Ibsen. Deepan’s retelling of the fantasy cautionary ...

American stagings of “Peer Gynt” are scarce to the point of singularity. Mark Lamos directed it at Hartford Stage in 1989, but I’m not aware of any subsequent full-length regional productions, and ...

Thought impossible to stage, the original Peer Gynt is Henrik Ibsen‘s 1867 5-act masterwork of poetic indulgence, combining trolls, demons, storms, even a pack of apes. Thought to be a deliberate ...

Gynt, a complete opposite of a hero, is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more or less the same result. Gynt, a complete opposite of a hero, is banished ...

The Scandinavian fascination with the Middle East probably goes back to pre-history when Norwegian Myth placed Aasegard, the home of the gods, somewhere in the Mediterranean Basin. In order to ...