‘When We Dead Awaken’ is going on a tour in Norway after wonderful reviews in London.
The tour will start in Sandnes Kulturhus on April 21 2022. Then travel to Grieghallen in Bergen for performance on the 23 April. and then Kilden Teater og Konserthus in Kristiansand on the 27th and 28th April.
The tour will end up in Ibsen’s home at Ibsen Museum & Teater in Henrik Ibsen’s Gate 26. His final play will then return to the house where it was written.
This will be a run of two weeks from 27th May until 12th June 2022.
These weeks will also mean a celebration of the brand new 133 seats Thetre that just now has been built underneath the museum. A wonderful intimate space waiting to greet audiences and productions from all over the world.
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 ]
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).
“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?
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