Little Eyolf - Softcover

Ibsen, Henrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848425392 ISBN 13: 9781848425392

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2016

Synopsis

Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart. How is a life well-lived? Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife Rita and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son. But one event is about to change his life forever. The third in a trilogy, Little Eyolf follows Eyre's multi-award-winning adaptations of Ghosts and Hedda Gabler.

About this title

About the Author:

HENRIK IBSEN (1828 -1906) is the author of Little Eyolf, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House Peer Gynt and The Master Builder among many others.

RICHARD EYRE is a director and writer. He has worked widely in theatre and opera, including in the West End, at the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House and on Broadway, and held the position of Artistic Director at the National Theatre from 1988-1997. His film work includes The Ploughman’s Lunch, Notes on a Scandal and the Oscar-winning Iris. He was knighted in 1997.

Review:

'As quick, clean and shocking as a naked plunge into a winter fjord... a play awash with desire, reproach and grief.' - Sunday Times; 'quietly shattering' - Independent; 'an evening of shocking intensity... vividly captures what Henry James called "the hard compulsion" of Ibsen's terrifying masterpiece' - Guardian; 'Eyre [is] the country's foremost illuminator of [Ibsen]... [he] reveals the play as a masterly study of how unhappiness corrodes us... an extraordinary stew of violent misery' - Observer; 'naturalism intermingles with expressionism, and slips, subtly, into something poetic and profoundly existential' - WhatsOnStage; 'laden with atmosphere... feels astonishingly contemporary' - Evening Standard

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1848425392
• ISBN 13: 9781848425392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80