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Elegant. Hauntingly beautiful. The sets for Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken, based on an original English translation by American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brustein, confirm post-modern director Robert Wilson as a visual artist of the first order. The scenery, designed by Wilson and John Conklin, is minimalist yet loses nothing in sumptuousness or effect...
Written in 1899, When We Dead Awaken was Ibsen's last play. In contrast to those earlier plays which were concerned mainly with society and social convention, When We Dead Awaken is the last of a series of four plays which drew heavily on individual and autobiographical themes...
...play's main character Rubek (Alvin Epstein), an Ibsen figure, is an aging sculptor disillusioned with his work and the idle life that wealth and fame have brought him. Rubek and his young wife Maya (Stephanie Roth) have become estranged. Maya cannot provide him with artistic or spiritual inspiration, and Rubek cannot satiate her hedonistic needs...
Modern drama, of which Henrik Ibsen is the father, is chiefly concerned with the realistic portrayal of human experience. The viewer must be able to establish a rapport with the characters and their actions. Ibsen himself was so concerned with this point that after the publication of his first successful work, Peer Gynt, he forsook verse for prose, which he identified as more characteristic of actual experience...
When describing Ibsen's reaction to a viewing of his own play, Rigg imitated him by pulling her hair and pounding on the lectern, shouting...