A unique collection of everything that Ibsen wrote about the
theatre. Three new productions of plays by Henrik Ibsen open
somewhere in the world every week. Moreover, they are adapted into
multiple genres: Chinese and Western Opera, Japanese Noh theatre,
puppet plays, musicals, dance performances, tourist spectacles,
promenade performances, applied theatre, community events, and
every possible screen technology. The more successful Ibsen became
as a playwright, the more reluctant he was to make public
pronouncements about the practice of theatre, but his thoughts on
the art form can be gleaned by mining his prefaces, letters,
speeches and newspaper articles. For the first time, these
fragments have been gathered together in one volume. Arranged
chronologically, they throw a unique light on Ibsen's views on
theatre production, casting, translation, the business of theatre,
and most importantly his own plays. The result is an invaluable
resource for those who seek to know what Ibsen himself thought
about his work and about the theatre of his time. Ibsen on Theatre
is edited, introduced and annotated by Frode Helland and Julie
Holledge, with new translations by May-Brit Akerholt. Also included
is a foreword by Richard Eyre. Ibsen on Theatre is in the Nick Hern
Books ...On Theatre series: what the world's greatest dramatists
had to say about theatre, in their own words. 'For anyone
interested in Ibsen's plays-actors, directors, students,
audiences-[this is] a marvellously accessible compendium of the
thoughts of a man I now unhesitatingly describe as a very great
playwright.' Richard Eyre, from his Foreword
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