Ibsen films; “It Takes An Other Kind of Man” at Hunter College

6/22/2009 :: Directed by Thomas Ostermeier, this daring adaptation of Hedda Gabler asks what happens to the heart when the old certainties, like career, a house and a pension, no longer hold. Opens November 28 at BAM in New York. + More

6/22/2009 :: Directed by Eirik Stubø. The standout cast of Norway’s Nationaltheateret brings a rich humanity to Ibsen’s highly metaphorical drama in a distinctly nuanced performance, capturing the fear, failings, and self-deception that mar its characters with pitch-perfect accuracy and giving its final, tragic act the brutal force of a hammer blow. Opens at Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 25. + More

6/22/2009 :: Anne Kristine Thorsby was the Peer Gynt festival artist in 2004. She chose to absorb herself into Ibsens "Peer Gynt" and work on new pictures, all of which were inspired by Ibsen's text. View her paintings from the series at Trygve Lie Gallery in New York, beginning October 5. + More

6/12/2009 :: The UC-Berkeley Department of Scandinavian and the Norway House Foundation present a dramatic reading of Henrik Ibsen's final play on April 26. + More