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From: Scandinavian Review
Date: 20071001
Author:Anonymous

NEWS * ANECDOTES * TRIVIA

HENRIK IBSEN'S PEER GYNT has been a notorious dramatic challenge ever since it first appeared in 1867. For starters, the Norwegian playwright not only wrote the epic fantasy in verse, but specifically as a dramatic text to be read rather than staged. To help this goal along, he contributed such touches as conceiving an entire act in pitch darkness and reeling back and forth between whatever style struck him as appropriate for a given scene or sequence. The relatively obscure Norse legend behind the story (a fabled 18th-century huntsman from Gudbrandsdalen named Per ...

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