Premiere US Premiere
Production Language Norwegian
Country of Origin Norway
Description Henrik Ibsen’s metaphysical play-in-verse is one of Norway’s most widely performed dramatic pieces. Based on the story of Peer, a simple man from the country, one who lives by no rules but his own, he embarks on a series of adventures that span the mountains of Norway to the deserts of North Africa. Through the course of its five acts, Peer Gynt deals with themes of fragmentation and individual isolation in a world becoming increasingly more complex and populous. Robert Wilson’s four-hour production of the work, featuring stalwart contributors Michael Galasso (music) and Jaques Reynaud (costumes and makeup), presented a series of rich, yet minimalistic stage pictures against which the various comic and tragic travels of Peer play out. After its premiere at the Det Norske Teatret, Oslo, February 2005, the production was presented by BAM.
Identifier 2006s.00838
