The Henrik Ibsen: Nine full-cast BBC radio dramatisations


Unabridged Audiobook

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September 2020
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16 hours 15 minutes
Summary
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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Christian V.

This is an excellent collection of Ibsen’s plays. I tried to restrict myself to one a day but wasn’t able to stick to that. I got so drawn in by his characters I couldn’t help myself. He’s got a pretty dark view on the human condition but it makes for terrific drama.

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