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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19990219
Author:Ed Siegel, Globe Staff

THE MASTER BUILDER Play in three acts by Henrik Ibsen. Adapted by Robert Brustein Directed by Kate Whoriskey. Set, Christine Jones. Lighting, Michael Chybowski. Costumes, Catherine Zuber. Sound, Christopher Walker. Produced by American Repertory Theatre At: Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, through March 21

CAMBRIDGE -- Much is made in Henrik Ibsen's "The Master Builder" about the artist's fear of "the younger generation." The builder, Halvard Solness, is terrified that younger architects will pass him by. Ibsen himself may have been jealous of the younger August Strindberg's growing influence, ...

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