The Literature Network - Meeting of like minds; Top theatre director Bill Alexander had never worked on a play by Henrik Ibsen until he came to Clwyd Theatr Cymru. He shared his first impressions with Philip Key.(Features)

Meeting of like minds; Top theatre director Bill Alexander had never worked on a play by Henrik Ibsen until he came to Clwyd Theatr Cymru. He shared his first impressions with Philip Key.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20020503
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Byline: Philip Key

G ENERALLY considered a drama, Alexander is unusually tackling it as a comedy. And that's just how Ibsen intended it, he says.

``I discovered the play was a lot funnier than I thought,'' he explains. ``Ibsen wrote it as a comedy and told his agent and publisher that he intended it to be a comedy but had sometimes got a bit carried away by the serious issues it raised.

``He was in a particularly serious frame of mind because the reviews of his previous play Ghosts had been so bad.''

Norfolk-born Alexander, 54, has always worked as a director ...

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Meeting of like minds; Top theatre director Bill Alexander had never worked on a play by Henrik Ibsen until he came to Clwyd Theatr Cymru. He shared his first impressions with Philip Key.(Features)

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