Details

Peer Gynt sweeps around the world in a fruitless search for power and glory - outwitting wedding guests, trolls and a belly dancing con-woman who are all intent on bringing him down. Eventually this comic rogue is redeemed by the love of a good woman. The last of Ibsen's verse dramas. In this modern reinvention of Ibsen's epic poem, Clare Venables cuts to the heart and soul of the original. In the protagonist's search for his own soul he makes the choice to remain free of human attachments, not realising that by doing so he destroys any chance he has of redemption. Dealing with powerful questions on the nature of free will and how our choices affect our lives and happiness, this is a Peer Gynt for the urban age.

Cast/Performers

Joanna Tope, Tam Dean Burn, Rupert Farley, Stephen Scott, Jay Manley, Seamus Whitty

Creatives/Company

Author: Henrik Ibsen
Director: Clare Venables
Design: Duncan MacAskill