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'A rock'n'roll reimagining of Ibsen's timeless corruption drama... showcases Ibsen's timelessness and also adapts the play's moral arguments excellently for our times' * Guardian * 'Electrifying... an impassioned examination of society and the powerlessness of democracy to check an abuse of power... Ostermeier is using theatre as a political rallying place, somewhere to ask what we really think' * WhatsOnStage * 'Surreal, provocative and very funny... deliciously spikey... fascinating and bracingly direct... Ostermeier blows the themes of the play up in the most thrilling way' * Time Out * 'Blistering... full of contemporary resonances' * Financial Times * 'Inspired and absolutely terrifying' * Radio Times * 'Thrilling... smashes the fourth wall and gives us some revolutionary theatre' * Theatre Weekly * 'Shockingly audacious... Ibsen goes punk... Explosive, anarchic and swaggeringly rock'n'roll' * London Theatre *

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Born in Norway in 1828, Ibsen began his writing career with romantic history plays influenced by Shakespeare and Schiller. In 1851 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the newly established Norwegian Theatre in Bergen with a contract to write a play a year for five years, following which he was made Artistic Director of the Norwegian Theatre in what is now Oslo. In the 1860s he moved abroad to concentrate wholly on writing. He began with two mighty verse dramas, Brand and Peer Gynt, and in the 1870s and 1880s wrote the sequence of realistic 'problem' plays for which he is best known, among them A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler and Rosmersholm. His last four plays, The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken, dating from his return to Norway in the 1890s, are increasingly overlaid with symbolism. Illness forced him to retire in 1900, and he died in 1906 after a series of crippling strokes. Thomas Ostermeier is a German theatre director, acclaimed for his innovative and often iconoclastic productions of classic and contemporary plays. He is the Artistic Director of the Schaubühne. Florian Borchmeyer is a German filmmaker and literary critic, and curates the international programme at Munich Filmfest. He was head of dramaturgy at the Schaubühne in Berlin from 2013 to 2019.

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