Ibsen in a sentence

In 1846, when Ibsen was age 18, a liaison with a servant produced an illegitimate child, whose upbringing Ibsen had to pay for until the boy was in his teens, though Ibsen never saw the boy.

Based on real events, “Ibsen in Chicago” fictionalizes the premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s penetrating 1881 play “Ghosts,” staged by Scandinavian immigrants in Chicago in its original Danish.

Alternative ending Ibsen's German agent felt that the original ending would not play well in German theatres; therefore, for it to be considered acceptable, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending for the German premiere.

Although Ibsen read excerpts of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and traces of the latter's influence are evident in Brand, it was not until after Brand that Ibsen came to take Kierkegaard seriously.

His biographer Henrik Jæger famously wrote in 1888 that Ibsen did not have a drop of Norwegian blood in his veins, stating that "the ancestral Ibsen was a Dane".

In 1900 his laudatory review of Henrik Ibsen 's When We Dead Awaken was published in Fortnightly Review ; it was his first publication and, after learning basic Norwegian to send a fan letter to Ibsen, he received a letter of thanks from the dramatist.

Many other translations of individual plays by Ibsen have appeared since 1928 though none have purported to be a new version of the complete works of Ibsen.

Take a trip out to the charming for a quick drama fix via Henrik Ibsen (translated and adapted for stage).

Back to Back Theatre features the work of artists with disabilities and has won prestigious international awards such as the International Ibsen Award and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.

So naturally, there’s an Ibsen-esque door slam that topples a house of cards, an erudite but deeply dated discourse on the fundamental naffness of Japanese digital watches, and an atmosphere so arch it could be used to patch up the Colosseum.

Their relationship remains much the same (along Ibsen's script) as they struggle with what the impact for the community would be if the news is made public.

There’s also a radical staging of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt by Barbara Frey, and Blindness and Seeing, based on two novels by the Portuguese Nobel prize-winner José Saramago, adapted by Tiago Rodrigues.

Ibsen’s three acts have been condensed into one, a few characters have been deleted, and the dialogue has been both compressed and modernized.

One of Ibsen’s earlier works, Peer Gynt was written in verse and based on a Norweigan fairy tale, with several characters modelled on his own family members.

ON TOM Piper’s brilliant set for Stef Smith’s thrilling new 21st century perspective on the story of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, three doorframes stand between the domestic space and the outside world.

Like I said, I’m classically trained, so I actually started off pretty much doing Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekov.

Wow. Ibsen may have been a mutton-chopped grouch, but his audiences sound fabulous.

Although Ibsen himself always looked back on this play as the cornerstone of his entire works, very few shared his opinion, and his next works would be much more acclaimed.

Among the world-famous artists who lived here during this period were Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun (the latter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature).

As audiences by now expected, Ibsen's next play again attacked entrenched beliefs and assumptions; but this time, his attack was not against society's mores, but against overeager reformers and their idealism.