Global Ibsen : Performing Multiple Modernities (Hardcover)

Introduction  Erika Fischer-Lichte  I. What Happened to the Women’s Liberation Movement? ? A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler on stage  1.  Ibsen on the Platteland: The first professional production of A Doll’s House in Afrikaans goes on tour  Temple Hauptfleisch and Hilda van Lill  2. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in America  Marvin Carlson 3.  A Doll’s House in the Antipodes  Jacqueline Martin  4. Canajun-eh? Finding a house for Nora in Canada  Errol Durbach  5. Women’s issues and theater style: A Doll’s House in Japan  Mitsuya Mori  6. Against love - Nora and Hedda on the contemporary Scandinavian stage  Tiina Rosenberg  7. Deborah Warner directs Hedda Gabler: Mercurial Pistols  Maria Shevtsova  II. Performing Peer Gynt ? Negotiating Cultural Identity  8. Peer Gynt at the pyramids of Giza  Nehad Selaiha  9. Peer Gynt in Israel: A national hero returning from exile?  Freddie Rokem   10. Antunes Filho’s Peer Gynt - A remarkable production of Ibsen in Brazil  Thereza Menezes 11. Patrice Chereau’s Peer Gynt: A renewed reception of Ibsen’s theater in France   Catherine Naugrette  12. Werner Egk’s Peer Gynt in Berlin 1938 - opera and politics  Clemens Risi  III. Modernization of Society and the Emergence of a New Theatre  13. Ghosts and gods: Ibsen, tragic actors and modern tragedies in contemporary Greek theater practice  Platon Mavromoustakos  14. An Enemy of the People - the play that anticipates the future  Wang Ning  15. An Enemy of the People as a ‘Trojan Horse’ - Frank Castorf stages Ibsen in the German Democratic Republic 1988  Barbara Gronau  16. Rosmersholm in the Moscow Art Theater (1908) and it’s First Studio (1918)  Dmitry Trubotchkin  17.  Eleonora Duse and Gordon Craig’s lost Ibsen  Laura Caretti