NEWS – The Norwegian Ibsen Company

26 Sep

Kåre Conradi on BBC Radio 3

Kåre Conradi recently participated in BBC Radio 3’s ‘FREE THINKING’ show. The programme will be broadcast at 10pm on Tuesday 27 September 2022 and available online shortly after the broadcast.

The episode is described as:

The individual versus the masses is at the heart of Enemy of the People. A bank manager speculating with his customers’ money is the story told in John Gabriel Borkman. Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters have written new versions of these Ibsen plays. They join Norwegian actor and director Kåre Conradi, theatre critic and writer Mark Lawson and presenter Anne McElvoy to explore the ways in which Ibsen’s characters and dramas resonate now.

FM: 90.2–92.6 MHz
DAB: 12B (BBC National DAB)
Freeview and Freesat: 703

bbc.co.uk

08 Aug

Peer Gynt at Fjæreheia

02 Aug

‘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)

08 Jul

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

READ FULL ARTICLE

05 Jun

2022 TOUR: Peer Gynt statister

Så fint at du fant oss! Vi trenger nemlig statister og ildsjeler som vil bli med oss på reisen inn i Peers utrolige verden. Det vil bli rappellering, troll, galskap og ikke minst en opplevelse for livet når Peer Gynt skal settes opp i Fjæreheia i juli 2022.

Målet til Ibsenkompaniet er å skape en fast arena i Fjæreheia hvor vi kan gi unike muligheter til alle typer talenter – og å være et bindeledd mellom unge utøvere og den profesjonelle bransjen. Planen, i tillegg til å gjøre Ibsen hvert år, er å skape en arena som er lettere tilgjengelig for alle grupper med et brennende ønske om å uttrykke noe sammen.

Her har du med andre ord muligheten til å bli en del av et team som kan jobbe og utvikle seg sammen, år etter år. Det vil du vel ikke gå glipp av?

Send oss en epost til statist@ibsencompany.com med en kort kommentar om hvorfor du vil være en del av dette eventyret, så hører du fra oss!

17 Mar

‘When We Dead Awaken’ on tour in Norway

‘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.

23 Feb

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 ]

21 Feb

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).

05 Jan

Sir Trevor Nunn is the Company’s first Patron

We are proud to announce Sir Trevor Nunn is the Norwegian Ibsen Company‘s first Patron.

Sir Trevor has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas for the stage, including Macbeth, as well as opera and musicals, and has directed works for film and television.

He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, winning Tonys for Cats, Les Misérables, and Nicholas Nickleby and the Olivier Awards for productions of Summerfolk, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, and Nicholas Nickleby.

His knowledge and passion of Ibsen and Shakespeare will be a huge inspiration for the Norwegian Ibsen Company.

19 Dec

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.