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Henrik Ibsen

Nine Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

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Henrik Ibsen

By: Henrik Ibsen
Narrated by: David Threlfall, Full Cast, Harriet Walters, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville, Nicholas Farrell, Samuel West
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About this listen

Often described as 'the father of realism', Henrik Ibsen was a pioneer of modernist drama. He influenced playwrights as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, and is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.

Included in this collection are adaptations of his tragicomic masterpiece The Wild Duck, his complex and compelling play Rosmersholm, the epic drama Brand and the tragedy John Gabriel Borkman. Ibsen's A Doll's House is relocated to 1879 India in Tanika Gupta's Audio Drama Award-winning dramatisation, while the provocative and scandalous Ghosts is adapted by Richard Eyre, with the cast of his Olivier Award-winning Almeida Theatre production.

Also featured are vibrant dramatisations of Hedda Gabler, whose desperate heroine is trapped in a suffocating marriage; The Lady from the Sea, about a woman torn between security and passion; and An Enemy of the People, in which a whistleblower reveals an inconvenient truth and is vilified for it.

The casts of these stunning dramas include David Threlfall, Nicholas Farrell, Helen Baxendale, Indira Varma, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter.

Track listing:

The Wild Duck

Rosmersholm

Brand

John Gabriel Borkman

A Doll's House

Ghosts

Hedda Gabler

The Lady from the Sea

An Enemy of the People

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Classics Drama & Plays European World Literature
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A very good introduction to Ibsen's plays in the adapted radio format, produced to BBC radio's usual high standards. A great way to familiarise yourself with Ibsen's themes and concerns. Very useful and interesting.

Quality radio production of Ibsen's plays.

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I tend to think of radio productions of stage plays as second best, but actually the two I've listened to so far are excellent productions by any standard. A strange but fascinating play - Brand (Ibsen's first major success); and A Doll's House, a play I know very well. The Doll's House is an adaptation by Tanika Gupta, setting the play in 19th Century Calcutta rather than a Norwegian town. This works brilliantly. They're wonderful plays and I highly recommend this audio title. Nine full length plays for one choice is also excellent value.

Excellent

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Great to have these captured for posterity rather than looking out for them on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Some quality performances from today’s best actors, and even adaptations by great playwrights like David Eldridge.

Some excellent BBC productions

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I love Henrik Ibsen he is one of my favorite writers I am seeing an enemy of the people live next year

Love it

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A mixed bag in terms of quality. The production of The Lady From the Sea is dreadful with extremely ponderous performances from the two lead actors. A better director would have shouted “Pace, pace, pace!” at them.

Patchy

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