“I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.”

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 21 Dec 1879, #HenrikIbsen’s classic three-act play A DOLL’S HOUSE premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

#NiaDaCosta talks complicated women, pushing up against conformity, and the importance of joy while discussing her scintillating adaptation of #HenrikIbsen's #HEDDA. @ofcs.bsky.social @johncweaver.bsky.social
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DYK #HenrikIbsen’s “A Doll’s House” opened in 1879? Nora closes the play by slamming the door as she walks out on her husband. The ending shocked a generation of theater goers, so many productions devised happy endings! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #Ibsen #WmnHist

I visited #HenrikIbsen's apartment in #Oslo — now a museum — when I was in #Norway eight years ago today (6.22.17) #Norge

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I was walking through #Oslo eight years ago today in my first week in #Norway when I came across this statue of #PeerGynt — #HenrikIbsen's most idiosyncratic & eccentric character — immortalized in music by Edvard Grieg (6.21.17) #Norge

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“To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul.
To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.”

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 24 February 1876, #HenrikIbsen's five-act play PEER GYNT premiered in Christiania (Oslo), Norway. The outstanding incidental music was by #EdvardGrieg.

“I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.”

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 21 Dec 1879, #HenrikIbsen’s classic three-act play A DOLL’S HOUSE premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

I awoke from a dream three years ago today in which I was recruited for an orchestra in Santa Barbara to play #EdvardGrieg's incidental music for a performance of #HenrikIbsen's play #PeerGynt (12.16.20) #drøm #drømmer
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#November22, 1968: released The #Beatles, usually referred to as the #WhiteAlbum. [link to site with information] The “White Album’s” original working title was A Doll’s House, which is the name of #HenrikIbsen’s play written in the 19th century.

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I visited #HenrikIbsen's apartment in #Oslo — now a museum — when I was in #Norway seven years ago today (6.22.17) #Norge

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#HenrikIbsen's #Ghosts opened in London #OnThisDay in 1881, a radical step forward in realism in #theater taken by Norway's most important playwright; when I was in Oslo seven years ago, I visited the Ibsen Museum (which includes the apartment he lived in) (6.22.17)

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