
Henrik Ibsen
Nine Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
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Henrik Ibsen
Often described as 'the father of realism', Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman. Ibsen's A Doll's House is relocated to 1879 India in Tanika Gupta's Audio Drama Award-winning dramatisation, while the provocative and scandalous Ghosts is adapted by Richard Eyre, with the cast of his Olivier Award-winning Almeida Theatre production.
Also featured are vibrant dramatisations of Hedda Gabler, whose desperate heroine is trapped in a suffocating marriage; The Lady from the Sea, about a woman torn between security and passion; and An Enemy of the People, in which a whistleblower reveals an inconvenient truth and is vilified for it.
The casts of these stunning dramas include David Threlfall, Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter.
Track listing:
The Wild Duck
Rosmersholm
Brand
John Gabriel Borkman
A Doll's House
Ghosts
Hedda Gabler
The Lady from the Sea
An Enemy of the People
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The production of The Wild Duck is also very good. While it doesn’t revolutionize the play the way the version of A Doll’s House does, it’s a very good production.
As well as for entertainment, these recordings are a good way to study and review the plays, especially if you have a test coming.
A Doll’s House
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A Doll’s House Alone is Worth the Credit
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If I wanted to listen to something set in India, I would have chosen one of the many beautiful plays or novels from India that are available here.
I wanted Ibsen and Ibsen is Norwegian. Whether anyone likes it or not, language forms culture. I am not a fan of transpositions. Often they are insulting to the culture into which they are set, as here with India.
In other plays, many actors are miscast. The brilliant Harriet Walters, whom I love, is unconvincing in Hedda Gabler and Michael Maloney overacts to an annoying degree unusual even for him, to name but two examples.
This is an appalling excuse of a title I wish I’d avoided.
Ibsen destroyed!
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