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fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

"An Enemy of the People" Becomes a Spanish Opera

Francisco Coll's opera Enemigo del Pueblo delivers a vigorous, inventive score that energizes Ibsen's drama and showcases Valencia's youthful, fiery orchestra.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Wagner Moura to lead Ibsen update in unique festival collaboration

Wagner Moura stars in a modernized An Enemy of the People directed by Christiane Jatahy, co-funded by Edinburgh, Avignon and Holland festivals.
Film
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

A House of Dynamite Features Cinema's Most Stressful Zoom Call.

Three films—A House of Dynamite, Hedda, and The Perfect Neighbor—are examined: a nuclear procedural, an Ibsen adaptation, and a police-body-cam–centered documentary.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

She does terrible things': what can a Marvel director do with Ibsen's ruthless heroine Hedda Gabler?

Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson sustain a playful collaborative partnership across films, with DaCosta rising from Little Woods to major genre and franchise projects.
Arts
fromwww.london-unattached.com
2 months ago

The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge Theatre

Simon Stone's Lady From The Sea starts as a witty, simmering family drama and falters when heightened tragedy fails to land, leaving an anticlimactic ending.
fromTime Out London
2 months ago

Review: 'The Lady from the Sea' starring Alicia Vikander and Andrew Lincoln at the Bridge Theatre

Although Aussie director Simon Stone has staged only a handful of shows in the UK, it has to be said that you can see a pattern developing. Take a classic play - previously Lorca's - rewrite the whole thing into aggressively modern English that revolves around long, light hearted stretches of posh people swearing amusingly, season with a bit of Berlin-indebted stage trickery, and finally change tack and wallop us with the tragedy, right in the guts.
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