‘Masterful’
Deserving of a huge audience
‘This is larger than life theatre in every sense; song and dance, music and lighting, and all with the quarry as a powerful backdrop. The alternation between the large tableaus and the subdued scenes is done effortlessly by Mulvik and the other actors, helped by a professional production.’ (Grimstad Adressetidende)
5/6
‘Nils Golberg Mulvik is close to a complete Peer Gynt. With enormous energy and vitality in both voice and body, he brings this mythical Ibsen figure to life in a performance that, overall, is one of the most convincing I have seen from a Peer Gynt production.’
‘Masterful. The ensemble lifts Ibsen’s brilliant text to the heights it deserves.’ (Fædrelandsvennen)
PEER GYNT at Fjæreheia
The Norwegian Ibsen Company enters Fjæreheia. Fjæreheia is a former quarry in Norway where a characteristic red granite was mined. It has an amphitheatre with 900 seats. The quarry is a unique outdoors arena, just outside of Grimstad, the town where Henrik Ibsen lived and worked in his youth and wrote his first play.
With an intensely visual Peer Gynt that begins after dark, Ibsen’s permanent mark will be carved into the rock wall.
Inspired by the critically acclaimed drawings by Geir Moen, Peer Gynt returns to Fjæreheia. One of the biggest audience successes in Fjæreheia was Reidar Sørensen’s interpretation of Peer Gynt. Now it is his son, Kim Sørensen, who’s responsible for an intense and powerful version of Ibsen’s immortal classic.
Actor and director Sørensen believes Peer Gynt speaks to us all, in all stages of our lives, and pulls on our heart strings time and time again.
When you manage to avoid responsibility throughout your entire life, old age turns into an encounter with a person we might not recognise.
Kim Sørensen acted in Peer Gynt when it was staged in Fjæreheia in 1998. Speaking with Sørensen, he says:
“This is a journey into a human mind. Everyone says Peer is lying, but is he really? Who is Peer? Who am I? A person who isn’t acknowledged may have a tendency to twist the truth, but is that a lie? Can the lies be truths? A person who feels ignored is a person on the edge! Is Peer being pushed to the brink, or does he want this? Can reality be somewhere between truth and lies?”
Wednesday 20 to Sunday 24 July 2022
THE STAGE interview with Kjetil Bang-Hansen
Simon Thomas from THE STAGE published his interview with Kjetil Bang-Hansen.
The Norwegian Ibsen Company is returning to the Coronet, this time with acclaimed director Kjetil Bang-Hansen at the helm. The octogenarian tells Simon Thomas about bringing this most personal of Ibsen’s works to London audiences. [ LINK TO FULL ARTICLE ]
Interviews in The Times
Kåre Conradi and director Kjetil Bang-Hansen discuss all things Ibsen and the company’s latest production When We Dead Awaken in today’s The Times. When We Dead Awaken opens at London’s Coronet Theatre on Thursday (24 February 2022).
The Norwegian Ibsen Company presents Peer Gynt at Fjæreheia
The Norwegian Ibsen Company enters Fjæreheia. With an intensely visual Peer Gynt that begins after dark, Ibsen’s permanent mark will be carved into the rock wall.
Inspired by the critically acclaimed drawings by Geir Moen, Peer Gynt returns to Fjæreheia. One of the biggest audience successes in Fjæreheia was Reidar Sørensen’s interpretation of Peer Gynt. Now it is his son, Kim Sørensen, who’s responsible for an intense and powerful version of Ibsen’s immortal classic.
Actor and director Sørensen believes Peer Gynt speaks to us all, in all stages of our lives, and pulls on our heart strings time and time again.
When you manage to avoid responsibility throughout your entire life, old age turns into an encounter with a person we might not recognise.
Kim Sørensen acted in Peer Gynt when it was staged in Fjæreheia in 1991. Speaking with Sørensen, he says:
“This is a journey into a human mind. Everyone says Peer is lying, but is he really? Who is Peer? Who am I? A person who isn’t acknowledged may have a tendency to twist the truth, but is that a lie? Can the lies be truths? A person who feels ignored is a person on the edge! Is Peer being pushed to the brink, or does he want this? Can reality be somewhere between truth and lies?”
2022 TOUR: When We Dead Awaken
“When We Dead Awaken is a strange, beautiful and bitter play about art, love, ambition and freedom. Like a musical quartet, 4 people, 4 elements, 4 voices, 4 instruments play different songs in a complicated melody. It is a play for our time, as they find themselves living in a changed world. Bewildered, how do they move forward?” – Director Kjetil Bang Hansen
The Norwegian Ibsen Company returns to The Coronet Theatre with a new adaptation of When We Dead Awaken, Henrik Ibsen’s enigmatic final play.
It is rare that anyone gets the chance to rediscover a lost love.
In the depths of a winter Rubek, once a celebrated sculptor, returns to Norway with his estranged young wife Maia – only to bump into his great lost love and muse Irene. Is this their opportunity to return to a world where there is meaning, hope and happiness – to awaken from the dead?
The Lady from the Sea at Print Room at the Coronet
The Norwegian Ibsen Company & Print Room at the Coronet present
The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
In a new version by Mari Vatne Kjeldstadli
Based on the translation by May-Brit Akerholt
Directed by Marit Moum Aune
The Print Room at the Coronet are joining forces with the Norwegian Ibsen Company for a new production of Henrik Ibsen’s timeless story of self-determination. With creative teams from UK and Norway, this new staging brings with it a deep connection to the Norwegian culture in which Ibsen lived.
“Exhilarating… this is Ibsen with the gloves off”
The Guardian on the National Theatre of Norway’s Little Eyolf at the Print Room
Ellida, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, was born where the fjord meets the ocean. Now trapped in a difficult marriage to a British doctor, Ellida longs for the open sea. Will the return of a former lover offer her a real choice?
A story of self-determination, modern families, loving other people’s children, and always looking for the perfect relationship, The Lady from the Sea was shocking in its challenge of societal norms when it premiered in 1889.
To mark the 130th anniversary of The Lady from the Sea, we’re thrilled to be collaborating with the Norwegian Ibsen Company for this new staging, which brings with it a deep connection to the Norwegian culture in which Ibsen lived: from its close relationship with nature, to the effect of the midnight sun on its inhabitants in the far north.
With performers and creatives from both UK and Norway, The Lady from the Sea follows the Print Room’s hugely successful 2018 collaboration with National Theatre of Norway and in co-operation with The Norwegian Ibsen Company, Little Eyolf, with many of the team returning for this shattering new production.
Both Norwegian and English will be spoken during the performance, with English surtitles for the Norwegian sections.
8 February to 9 March 2019
Little Eyolf to open in London
The Norwegian Ibsen Company has started a co-operation with The Print Room theatre Coronet in Notting Hill, London. The first production will be a visit from The National Theatre of Norway. This guest performance is funded by the InterNational Foundation.
This production of Little Eyolf has been on the repertoire of The National Theatre of Norway for three years to amazing reviews. The Norwegian Ibsen Company’s artistic director Kåre Conradi is a lifetime employee at The National Theatre of Norway and plays Alfred Almers opposite Pia Tjelta as Rita Almers. Tjelta is these days shooting the series BECK in Sweden where she stars opposite Kristoffer Hivju (Game of Thrones).
The visit of this powerful production to The Print Room also marks the beginning of a working relationship between The Print Room Coronet and The Norwegian Ibsen Company. Artistic Director Kåre Conradi has said at several occasions that The Coronet has many similarities to The National Theatre of Norway. The much needed yet very cool choice of bringing the Coronet stage up to the level of first balcony is something he would have loved to experience at The National Theatre of Norway if an opportunity was given. It brings an incredible intimacy into the grand atmosphere of a big classic theatre house.
The co-production from Norway also stars Andrine Sæther, John Emil Jørgensrud and Ine Jansen. Directed by the award winning director Sofia Jupither.
Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 April 2018. BOOK NOW! The Thursday performance is already SOLD OUT.
Print Room at the Coronet, 103 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3LB.
Kåre as Peer Gynt in India
Kåre has just returned from the highly successful first Ibsen Theatre Festival in Mumbai, India.
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Photos: Helge Lien
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