Word: ibsenism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hedda Gabler by HENRIK IBSEN...
Peer Gynt is one of Ibsen's more difficult plays, outside the genre of the "problem" play about society and dealing with different, larger(?) issues. Long, uncompromising, and rewarding. Directed by the talented professional Peter Frisch. At the Loeb mainstage tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...DOLL'S HOUSE by HENRIK IBSEN...
...early on, one must seriously question if Scenes from a Marriage is in truth a film. In content, it is a child of the stage, most obviously Strindberg's Dance of Death, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? More unsettlingly, its form has been imposed by the demands of TV. Bergman wrote and filmed it as six 50-minute segments for Scandinavian television. Telescoping the series in length to just under three hours blurs some of the narrative line, and Bergman's unrelenting reliance...
Those who fear the rule of King Mob often complain of "the tyranny of the majority" and even romantically assert, as did one of Ibsen's characters in An Enemy of the People, that "the minority is always in the right." Lone voices crying in the wilderness often do speak good sense, and majorities can of course be wrong, or infuriatingly slow to come round to a view that is later seen to be right. But after examining all the arguments for the assumed tyranny of the majority, Ferdinand A. Hermens, professor emeritus of the University of Cologne, concluded...