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Informationen zum Autor Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)! Norwegian poet and playwright! was one of the shapers of modern theatre! who tempered naturalism with an understanding of social responsibility and individual psychology. His earliest major plays! Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867)! were large-scale verse dramas! but with Pillars of the Community (1877) he began to explore contemporary issues. There followed A Doll's House (1879)! Ghosts (1881) and An Enemy of the People (1882). A richer understanding of the complexity of human impulses marks such later works as The Wild Duck (1885)! Rosmersholm (1886)! Hedda Gabler (1890) and The Master Builder (1892)! while the imminence of mortality overshadows his last great plays! John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and When We Dead Awaken (1899). Stephen Unwin is Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston. He founded English Touring Theatre in 1993! where his Shakespeare productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream! Hamlet! Macbeth! As You Like It! Henry IV! Parts One and Two! King Lear and Romeo and Juliet . He is the winner of the 2003 Sam Wanamaker Shakespeare Globe Award. He directed Kenneth McLeish's translations of A Doll's House! Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder . He has directed more than fifty theatre and opera productions for the Royal National Theatre! English National Opera! the Royal Opera House! the Royal Court Theatre and many others. His work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse! the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic. He has co-written A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama and A Pocket Guide to Ibsen! Chekhov and Strindberg (Faber & Faber)! So You Want to be a Theatre Director? (Nick Hern Books) and A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht (Methuen). Klappentext Ellida! claustrophobic and restless! swims in the sea every day. On a late summer's day he comes to claim her.Henrik Ibsen's elusive masterpiece The Lady from the Sea! in a translation by Stephen Unwin! premiered at the Rose Theatre! Kingston! in February 2012. Zusammenfassung Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day. On a late summer's day he comes to claim her. Henrik Ibsen's elusive masterpiece The Lady from the Sea, in a translation by Stephen Unwin, premiered at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, in February 2012....
