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The Master Builder
The Master Builder
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Author: Henrik Ibsen Translated by: Nicholas Rudall Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Format: Softcover # of Pages: 113 Pub. Date: 1994 ISBN-10: 1566630428 ISBN-13: 9781566630429 Cast Size: 2 female, 5 male
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About the Play:
The Master Builder is a full-length drama by Henrik
Ibsen. An aging architect is haunted by memories and fears until
a figure from his past returns.
The most gripping of Ibsen's later, brooding self-portraits, The
Master Builder bursts forth with the religious, mystical, and
poetic strains in the playwright's nature. Here they are contained
within a domestic but strongly symbolic framework: Solness, architect
and messianic hero, has been pulled down from the heights to reside
in the community of men, and is now painfully labouring to drag
himself up again. His development as a builder, his fascination with
a young and beautiful woman, his fear of eclipse by a younger
generation of talent — all are highly charges autobiographical
reflections.
In this fresh translation by Nicholas Rudall, the language
of The Master Builder is no longer archaic or Victorian, and
the play becomes eminently accessible for contemporary audiences.
Cast: 2 female, 5 male
What people say:
"It is a great cathedral of a
play, with dark, mystical strains which boom like the chords of an
organ. Since Ibsen is once again concerned with a powerful central
hero who wills his fate, rather than a victim of circumstantial
process, the work has a feeling of loftiness and grandeur."
— Robert Brustein
About the Playwright: Henrik
Ibsen (1828-1906) is the second most widely produced dramatist in
the world, eclipsed only by Shakespeare. He is revered in Norway as
its most famous author and a national symbol, even though he spent
much of his life abroad in Italy and Germany. He was largely
responsible for the rise of realism in the theatre. In works that
possess revelatory power Ibsen challenged his audiences to question
conventional morality and social conditions. Often controversial, his
works were deeply unsettling to many of his Victorian contemporaries.
He is now widely regarded as the "father of modern drama"
and one of the greatest dramatists who ever lived.
D. Nicholas Rudall (1940-2018) was Professor Emeritus in the Department
of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has directed many
classical works at the Court Theatre, of which he is the founding
director. His teaching focused on tragedy and the ancient theater,
Aristophanes, and Propertius.
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