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...then there was . . . But the catalog is endless. Events of the past week can only lend credence to playwright Henrik Ibsen's observance, "Those heroes of finance are like beads on a string -- when one slips off, the rest follow." Is there any possibility of knotting that string? Or is scandal as much a part of the market as the NASDAQ? Can the greedy be saved from themselves? Or does Midas play as big a role as Oedipus in the human psyche...
PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic sweep and the proto- Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions...
PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic sweep and the proto- Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions...
Nora is one of Bergman's few stage scripts, and this one rewrites Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, reducing it to its bare essentials. This weekend's drama explores how people behave in the face of evil and misfortune, yet it also allows such villains as Krogstad to appear more appealing than in the original version. Nora promises to provide an intense evening of entertainment; there is no intermission in this production. Bergman's play, directed by junior Heather Cross, runs this weekend only at the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...Harvard, Mitchell teaches a Core course entitled "The Heroic Tradition in Northern Europe," nicknamed "Sub-zero Heroes" by students, and several undergraduate-level courses in the Departments of Scandinavian and Folklore and Mythology, where he is head tutor. Last fall, he taught a course about Strindberg and Ibsen, and in the past he has taught a course on the Scandinavian novel from 1865 to World...