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Henrik Ibsen & Jon Fosse: Norway Meets New York

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20060823
Author:Soloski, Alexis

Henrik Ibsen & Jon Fosse: Norway Meets New York

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Taking the Plunge

Swimming to Scandinavia in a fateful double feature

In Norway, people don't commit suicide more frequently than in other countries. (Indeed, the nation has one of the lower rates in the West, significantly below the U.S., France, and that current capital of self-slaughter, Lithuania.) But perhaps they off themselves more inscrutably. Certainly, that's a reasonable conclusion to draw from the four enigmatic suicides portrayed in Ibsen/Fosse, a diptych of Norwegian plays featuring Henrik ...

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