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...PHILANDERER. Shaw on Ibsen clubs and liberated groupies. 7:30 at the Loeb...
...fortuity of Ibsen revivals generated two excellent productions: Trevor Nunn's staging of "The Lady from the Sea," starring Natasha Richardson, and Adrian Noble's "Brand," with Ralph Fiennes. (I missed Patrick Stewart in "The Master Builder"). Fiennes, his thin voice willing itself to fierce majesty, is ideal as Brand the mad priest, so devoted to saving people for God that he destroys them. The piece ends with a literally moving coup de theatre that ... well, go see for yourself. Cheapest round-trip New York-London airfare...
...Chicago, you began to wonder if schlock is the only way to sell tickets these days. Who'd have guessed that it would take a long-dead Norwegian playwright to save the West End? To the relief of lovers of serious theater, no fewer than four plays by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) have opened in London this summer. Granted, the lead performers have some Hollywood movies on their CVs, but they also have serious theater cred - Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Stewart know their way around the boards - and they're drawing rapturous reviews and full-house crowds. Industry...
These were ordinary people who did not wait for higher authorities to do what needed to be done. Literature's great statement on unwelcome truth telling is Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People. Something said by one of his characters reminds us of what we admire about our Dynamic Trio. "A community is like a ship," he observes. "Everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." When the time came, these women saw the ship in citizenship. And they stepped up to that wheel...
...Like the best of silent films, the lack of words turns Jason's book into a universally accessible meditation on the human condition. Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist. Imagine Buster Keaton in Henrik Ibsen's version of "The Mouse and the Lion." These "fables" all have the same lesson: Life is absurd...