Tag Archives: Henrik Ibsen

A radical new version of Ibsen’s A Doll House

A radical new version of Ibsen’s A Doll House

Robert Tanitch reviews Nora: A Doll’s House at Young Vic, London SE1 HE: First and foremost you are a wife and mother. SHE: First and foremost I am a human being. When Nora left her husband and their ...
Life is a terrible price to pay for birth

Life is a terrible price to pay for birth

Robert Tanitch reviews Peter Gynt at National Theatre/Olivier, London When the 39-year-old Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in 1867 he thought of it as a long dramatic poem and never thought it would be s ...