Shakespeare Theatre Company: An Enemy of the People
 
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
Directed by Kjetil Bang-Hansen
August 29—October 22, 2006
Spurred by his maddening experiences with censorship, Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People to depict how society deliberately and ruthlessly ostracizes its truth-tellers. When Dr. Stockmann discovers that his city’s baths are contaminated, he immediately sets out to warn his fellow citizens. Terrified of losing the baths’ tourist dollars, the citizens refuse to accept Dr. Stockmann’s claims. Ibsen captures the courage of one man fighting the tyranny of the majority in a play that remains inescapably modern. Kjetil Bang-Hansen makes his Shakespeare Theatre Company debut directing a translation by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston. Bang-Hansen is the former artistic director of Den Nationale Scene, one of Norway’s three national theatres and where Ibsen served as writer-in-residence from 1851 to 1857.
Reviews
“An intelligent read on the play … a fierce attack on party politics and self-interested timidity.”
Trey Graham, Washington City Paper
“Bang-Hansen's sure-footed “Enemy” avoids the traps other Ibsen productions fall into, and provides an entertainment in which topicality is not a synonym for dryness.”
Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“Intense and impassioned … this production speaks loudly to us today.”
Gary Tischler, The Downtowner
“Riveting … It is deeply moving and thought-provoking. Strong, spirited and stunning.”
Marilou Donahue, Artistically Speaking
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Epiphany Theater Company: A Doll House
 
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A DOLL HOUSE
by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
Directed by Ken Kaissar
When she breaks the law to save her husband's life, Nora Helmer learns that her marriage is not the perfect doll house she imagined. Written a century before the Women's Liberation Movement took hold, this coming of age tale shocked and outraged audiences until society caught up. The Epiphany Theater Company invites you to break free as we revive this masterpiece by the father of modern realism, Henrik Ibsen.
Berkely Repertory Theatre: Ghosts  
Performance Info GHOSTS
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by Jonathan Moscone
february 27—april 11, 2004
The Roda Theatre
running time: 2 hours and 15 minutes, including one 15 minute intermission
Ghosts, Ibsen's 19th century classic, is a searing portrait
of a community whose repressive and hypocritical sense of morality devastates
lives. Timely for its piercing insight into the dire consequences of
maintaining appearances at all costs, Ghosts reminds us why Henrik Ibsen
remains one of the most important playwrights of all time.
Reviews
Ibsen's most controversial and reviled play in its time, "Ghosts"
is famously about the congenital syphilis affecting Mrs. Alving's beloved
son, Osvald... But it's about far more than that, touching on forbidden
topics from priestly corruption to incest with a rigorous candor that
seems innately modern in Rick Davis' and Brian Johnston's spare, clear
and briskly colloquial translation.
Robert Hurwitt
SF Chronicle
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The University of Toledo, Ohio :
Little Eyolf
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LITTLE EYOLF
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Brian Johnston
March 23-28, 2004
Studio Theatre * Center for Performing Arts * 7:30 pm
Directed by Stephen Berwind
Little Eyolf is a
biting portrait of a toxic marriage. It illuminates Ibsen's reputation
as a precursor to Freud in modern drama and why his characters continue
to resonate with audiences as if freshly minted.A tragic accident ingites
an explosion of unexpressed resentment and desire that exposes the weak
foundations of the Allmer's marriage. Produced in the Studio Theatre
with minimal design elements, the production will focus on the rich,
complex relationships between the four main characters of the play.
San Jose Stage Company: Ghosts
Performance Info
GHOSTS
San Jose Stage Company
January 29-February 23, 2003
The classic drama by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
The sins of the father weigh heavy on the son in Henrik Ibsen's classic drama, adapted by Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company. Weaving an intricate web of emotion, GHOSTS masterfully reveals the high cost of keeping secrets to save face, and the damage the truth can do when it's told too late.
Reviews
Trying to re-create the impact Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts had on audiences of the 1880s is like trying to re-create the experience of a bomb blast by having an actor hollering, "Boom!" The play is not quite a social bomb anymore, though the problems Ibsen diagnosed are still afoot. The same hypocrisy and snobbery stalk the land...
Richard von Busack
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SUNY New Paltz: A Doll House 
Performance Info
A DOLL HOUSE
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by Beverly Brumm
february 27— marche 09, 2003
NEW PALTZ -- Perhaps no other
work of modern drama has so clearly crystallized the struggle between
duty to family and duty to self as A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen.
The Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz is presenting this
groundbreaking classic between Feb. 27 and March 9, 2003.
The story of Nora, whose secret past suddenly forces her to wrestle with a long-unquestioned identity as wife and mother, has galvanized audiences ever since Ibsen published it in 1879. In the space of three days, the heroine is transformed from a flibberty-gibbet into a woman on her own. Her final declaration of independence spurred such a wave of controversy and social change across Europe that fellow playwright George Bernard Shaw, termed this culminating moment "the door slam heard round the world."
SUNY director Beverly Brumm believes the play's central themes of self-determination and personal choice are as relevant today as they were a century ago. "There's still a struggle for a woman to be absolutely herself," Brumm says, "to live her life uninfluenced by society's expectations of what she should be."
SUNY's script was translated from the Norwegian by noted Ibsen scholars Rick Davis and Brian Johnston. Photos
  
Seton Hill: A Doll House
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A DOLL HOUSE
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by Denise Pullen
November 12 - 17, 2002
. Henrik Ibsen's 1879 landmark play
exploded traditional notions of marital roles. The controversy it raised
and the acclaim it won served as a battle cry for critics who supported
the creation of a drama of ideas. It earned accolades for the author
who came to be considered one of the founders of the modern theatre.
Walterdale Playhouse: A Doll House
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A DOLL HOUSEs
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by Donna Detka
November 20-30, 2002
This Ibsen classic, written in 1879, elevated feminist consciousness in a world where the difference between how women and men were judged was profound, in a society that was based on the law that man had created.
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College: An Enemy of the People
Performance Info
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by Portia Krieger
October, 2002
New World School for the Arts: Hedda Gabler
Performance Info
HEDDA GABLER
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
New World School for the Arts, Miami, Florida
October, 2001
Bradley University: A Doll House
Performance Info
A DOLL HOUSE
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
Bradley University
November, 2000
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George Mason University: The Lady from the Sea
Performance Info
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Brian Johnston
diected by Rick Davis
The Theater of the First Amendment
George Mason University's Professional Company, Fairfax, Virginia
September, 2000
The Open Door Theatre: Ghosts
 
Performance Info
GHOSTS
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by
Michael Babbitt
January, 2000
We are the sum of all that has come before us. Osvald Alving arrives home only to be possessed by the ghosts that his Mother and her friend Pastor Manders have spent years trying to escape. Through the course of an evening, the past, present and future meet to explode in a revolution of the human spirit.
Reviews
In Ghosts (1881), a masterpiece of Modern
Drama by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Chapel Hill's
Open Door Theatre and co-artistic director Michael
Babbitt have a meaty script (newly translated for the stage by Rick
Davis and Brian Johnston) that inspires some crackerjack performances
from some of the Triangle's most talented actors and actresses...
Robert W. McDowell.
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University of Rochester: Ghosts
Performance Info
GHOSTS
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
University of Rochester International Theatre Program, Rochester, New York
directed by
Nigel Maister
May, 1999
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Wake Forest University: Hedda Gabler
 
Performance Info
HEDDA GABLER
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by J. E. R. Friedenberg
February 12 - 21, 1999
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Carnegie Mellon University: Ghosts
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GHOSTS
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
Studio Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University
December, 1998
Youngstown State University :
An Enemy of the People
Performance Info
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
February, 1997
Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Ghosts
Performance Info
GHOSTS
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
June, 1997
Ohio University : Hedda Gabler
Performance Info
HEDDA GABLER
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
directed by
Tom Beck
february, 1997
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New World School for the Arts:
The Wild Duck
Performance Info
THE WILD DUCK
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Brian Johnston
June, 1996
University of North Texas:
Pillars Of Society
Performance Info
PILLARS OF SOCIETY
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Brian Johnston
April, 1996
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Washington Shakespeare Company:
ROSMERSHOLM
Performance Info
ROSMERSHOLM
by Henrik Ibsen
translated by Brian Johnston
April, 1994
Perseverance Theatre:
An Enemy of the People
Performance Info
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston
Perseverance Theatre
1990/1991
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