| The Master Builder Contributor(s): Ibsen, Henrik (Author), Hare, David (Adapted by) |
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ISBN: 0571330819 ISBN-13: 9780571330812 Publisher: Faber & Faber OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting - Reference |
| Series: Faber Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 7.7" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door. The master builder Halvard Solness has a fear of falling. A self-made man, without professional qualifications, he has achieved domination in the town but he's increasingly frightened of being displaced by the young. A woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have known Solness ten years previously, and telling him of a promise he made to her when she thirteen. David Hare has written a new adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsen's most complex autobiographical masterpieces - a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death, which builds to a vertiginous climax. The Master Builder premiered in this English version at The Old Vic, London, in January 2016. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hare, David: - David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader, and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre. He lives in London with his wife, the fashion designer, Nicole Fahri.Ibsen, Henrik: - Henrik Ibsen/b> was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet. His best known works are A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and Ghosts. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and by the early 20th century A Doll's House became the world's most performed play. He died in 1906. |