Global Ibsen

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 Chéreau'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