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BAM 2013 Winter/Spring Season #TheMasterBuilder

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, The Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, Master President Joseph V. Melillo, Builder Executive Producer

By Henrik Translated by Directed by Andrei Belgrader

BAM Harvey Theater May 12 & 19 at 7pm; May 14—18, 21—25, 28—30; Jun 1, 4—8 at 7:30pm; May 25, Jun 1 & 8 at 2pm; May 26, Jun 2 & 9 at 3pm

Approximate running time: two hours and 10 minutes including one intermission

Produced by BAM

Set design by Santo Loquasto Costume design by Marco Piemontese Lighting design by James F. Ingalls BAM 2013 Winter/Spring Season sponsor: Sound design by Ryan Rumery Original music written and performed live by Christian Frederickson and Ryan Rumery Wig and hair design by Paul Huntley BAM 2013 Theater Sponsor Casting by Nancy Piccione, CSA

Major support for theater at BAM: The Corinthian Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen, Jr. The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Barbara & David Zalaznick Who’s Who

Katherine Borowitz Ken Cheeseman

Julian Gamble Kelly Hutchinson Max Gordon Moore

Wrenn Schmidt

CAST, in order of appearance Knut Brovik Julian Gamble Kaja Fosli Kelly Hutchinson Ragnar Brovik Max Gordon Moore Halvard Solness John Turturro Aline Solness Katherine Borowitz Dr. Herda Ken Cheeseman Hilde Wangel

MUSICIANS Piano, synthesizer, percussion Ryan Rumery Viola, guitars Christian Frederickson

Production stage manager James Latus Assistant stage manager Samantha Watson

This adaptation first performed at the Minerva , Chichester on September 9, 2010 Adaptation © Goodwrite Enterprises Ltd 2010 Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd; alanbrodie.com

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the

This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

UNDERSTUDIES Knut Brovik / Halvard Solness Sean Cullen Kaja Fosli / Hilde Wangel Rachel Mewbron Ragnar Brovik / Dr. Herdal Dylan Chalfy Aline Solness Kate Hampton

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant director Alicia D. House Associate scenic designer Antje Ellerman Assistant costume designer Luana Busetti Assistant lighting designer Aaron Porter Assistant scenic designer Jisun Kim Assistant scenic designer Alexander Woodward Casting assistant Felicia Rudolph

PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set constructed by Hudson Scenic Studio The Master Builder

Katherine Borowitz, John Turturro, and Wrenn Schmidt in The Master Builder. Photo: Graeme Mitchell. Who’s Who

Katherine Borowitz (Aline Solness) joined Flame Keeper, and Call the Children Home. Actor’s Equity by playing a tree in the forest of He was on the national tour of 12 Angry Men. Arden in Andrei Belgrader’s production of As Gamble has also appeared in over 120 produc- You Like It at Yale Rep. Other regional theater tions at regional theaters across the country. includes , once as Thea, once as Hedda; Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Kelly Hutchinson (Kaja Fosli) has per- Hannah in Arcadia; Leonid in The Triumph of formed on Broadway in Desire Under the Elms, Love; and the title role in The Mai by Marina Major Barbara, and Macbeth; off-Broadway Carr. Off-Broadway she has worked at Classic in Or (The Women’s Project), The Voyage of Stage Company in A Spanish by Yasmina the Carcass (Soho Playhouse), Tony Kushner’s Reza, in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Homebody/Kabul at Theater Work- Ui; and very briefly in Three Sisters. She also shop, and Romola and Nijinsky at Primary played Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9 and all Stages. Regional theater includes The Heir non-Yoko Ono women as well as keyboards in Apparent (Shakespeare Theatre), Emma (The Lennon at the Entermedia before it became a Old Globe), How Shakespeare Won the West multiplex. On Broadway last year she played the (Huntington Theatre), The Unmentionables (Yale Mother in Ethan Coen’s contribution to Relatively Rep, directed by Anna D. Shapiro), Rocket to Speaking. Television credits include , the Moon (Bard), The Understudy (Cincinnati various Law & Orders, teleplays, and a season of Playhouse), Penelope of Ithaca (Hangar), and Hothouse. Among her film work: Internal Affairs, shows at the Pioneer Theater, Baltimore Center Baby Boom, Men of Respect, Mac, Illuminata, Stage, Barrington Stage, Indiana Rep, and more. The Man Who Wasn’t There, Somewhere To- On television Hutchinson has been seen on The night, and A Serious Man. Good Wife, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Hack, and The Jury, as well as in a recurring Ken Cheeseman (Dr. Herdal) has performed role on Strangers with Candy. Films include with New York Shaksespeare Festival in Measure Catch Me If You Can, Slippery Slope, Hysterical for Measure, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Psycho, Don Peyote, and The Sea is All I Know La MaMa ETC in ; and CSC in Amphi- with Melissa Leo. tryon, Scapin, and . Other productions: Long Wharf, The Misanthrope; Yale Max Gordon Moore (Ragnar Brovik) has Rep, Scapin; Baltimore Center Stage, Travels with performed on Broadway in Relatively Speaking My Aunt and The Cherry Orchard. At Huntington and off-Broadway in Man & Superman and It’s Theatre: Prelude to a Kiss, All My Sons, and Civil A Wonderful Life (Irish Rep) and The Ameri- War Christmas. At American Repertory Theatre: can Song Project (The Flea). Regional theater We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Doctor’s Dilem- includes Tragedy: A Tragedy (Berkeley Rep); The ma, Othello, Three Farces and a Funeral, and Seagull (Cleveland Playhouse); Richard III, As The Merchant of Venice. At Trinity Rep: Marvin’s You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Room and One for the Money. Feature film roles Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare The- include Shutter Island, Mystic River, Leaves of atre); Bach at Leipzig (); John Bull’s Other Grass, Malice, and Next Stop Wonderland and Island (Geva Theatre); Pleasure and Pain (Magic on TV, Monk and Law & Order. Cheeseman is a Theatre); Private Jokes, Public Places (Aurora senior artist in residence at Emerson College. Theatre); Learned Ladies and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Texas Shakespeare Festival); and Family Julian Gamble (Knut Brovnik) has appeared Alchemy (Traveling Jewish Theatre). Film: Gods on Broadway in , Democracy, The Behaving Badly and Terrors of Basketweaving. Invention of Love, The Iceman Cometh, A Month Television: . He received an in the Country, and Dinner at Eight. Films in- MFA at the Yale School of . clude Blood Ties, For Ellen, Taking Chance, First Born, and Quiet Killer. Television: Guest Star and Wrenn Schmidt (Hilde Wangel) has ap- recurring roles on Law & Order, Third Watch, peared on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba SVU, Rubicon, Criminal Intent, Delocated, Willy, (MTC) and on national tour in Who’s Afraid of H.I.E.R., Perry Mason, Lifestories, , One Virginia Woolf? with and Kathleen Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, and Remember Turner. Off-Broadway shows include Be a Good Wenn. Off-Broadway: You Never Can Tell, The Little Widow (Ars Nova), Beyond the Horizon, The Master Builder­

Katherine Borowitz. Photo: Graeme Mitchell. Who’s Who

Sive (), Jailbait (Cherry Wilderness (Vivian Beaumont Theater) and The Lane Theater), Katie Roche, Temporal Powers Rose Tattoo (Circle in the Square) and off-Broad- (Mint Theater Co.), Phantom Killer (Abingdon way in The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Ur- Theatre Co.), Caesar & Cleopatra (Resonance ban Stages); Big Potato (Duke Theater); Home of Ensemble), and Crazy for the Dog (Jean Cocteau the Brave (91st St Playhouse); and Blood Guilty Repertory). Regional: (Cape May Stage) (Ensemble Studio Theater). Regional productions and Heaven (Kitchen Dog Theater). Film: Our include Emma (Book-It Rep); Secret Order (Alley Idiot Brother, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Theatre); Rabbit Hole (Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Spitzer (“The Projectionist’s Best Performances of Hartford Theaterworks); Doubt (George St 2010,” New York magazine), The Necklace, and Playhouse); and Misalliance and Cymbeline Javelina. Upcoming: How to Follow Strangers (Old Globe Theatre). Film and television appear- and Mary & Louise. TV: Julia Sagorsky on Board- ances: The Carrie Diaries, , Box, walk Empire, Blue Bloods, , Mercy, Blue Bloods, Delocated, Guiding Light, Rescue Law & Order, and 3 LBS. Training: SCGSAH and Me, One Life to Live, Law & Order, Law & Meadows School of the Arts, SMU (BFA). Special Order: SVU, Conviction, Oz, and The Hand- thanks to MA and love to JR. maid’s Tale and on BBC Radio.

John Turturro (Halvard Solness) studied at Sean Cullen (understudy: Knut Brovik, the Yale School of Drama. For his theatrical de- Halvard Solness) appeared earlier this year in but he created the title role of Shan- Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed production of ley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, for which Clifford Odet’s Golden Boy, directed by Bartlett he won an and a Theater World Sher. He also guest starred in a recurring role on Award. Since then, he has performed on stage in HBO’s , and completed filming ; the title role of Brecht’s The Lou Howe’s Gabriel, starring Rory Culkin. In Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Eduardo De Filippo’s 2012, Cullen appeared at the Williamstown The- Souls of , for which he was nominated for atre Festival in ’s production a ; and at BAM. On of The Importance of Being Earnest and Richard Broadway he appeared in ’s Life x3 Nelson’s adaptation/production of Turgenev’s A and directed an evening of one-acts called Rela- Month in the Country. Broadway credits also tively Speaking. He most recently appeared as include South Pacific; Coram Boy; and James Lopakhin in the highly acclaimed CSC production Joyce’s The Dead. He has also appeared in pro- of The Cherry Orchard. Turturro was nominated ductions at 20 of the country’s leading regional for a SAG Award for his portrayal of Howard theaters. Cullen’s feature film credits include Cop Cosell in , and again Out, Revolutionary Road, and Michael Clayton, for The Bronx is Burning, as notorious Yankee among others. His most recent television credits skipper Billy Martin. He won an Emmy Award for include roles in Body of Proof, N.C.I.S., and Blue his guest appearance on Monk. Turturro has per- Bloods, among others. He is a native of Buffalo, formed in more than 60 films, including Spike NY and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University Lee’s , Mo’ Better Blues, and the Yale School of Drama. and ; ’s Quiz Show; ’s La Tregua; and Joel and Ethan Kate Hampton (understudy, Aline Solness) Coen’s Miller’s Crossing, , and has had roles on Broadway in The Best Man and O Brother Where Thou. For his lead role in The Deep Blue Sea and in the first national tour the ’ , Turturro won the of Spring Awakening. Additional productions in Best Actor Award at the . New York include All My Sons (Roundabout), He received Cannes’ Camera d’Or Award for his Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P), The directorial debut, Mac. Other films as director Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed Thumb), and include Illuminata, Romance & Cigarettes, Pas- Over the River and Through the Woods. Regional sione: a Musical Adventure, and the upcoming productions include Lend Me a Tenor (Florida , which he also wrote and stars in, Rep), Fallen Angels, God of Carnage, Once in a alongside . Lifetime, The Innocents, Las Meninas, Boeing Boeing, La Bête, Pride and Prejudice, Expecting Dylan Chalfy (understudy: Ragnar Brovik, Isabel (Asolo Rep), Absurd Person Singular (Bris- Dr. Herdal) has been seen on Broadway in Ah, tol Rep), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom Who’s Who

(Humana Festival), Loot (The Arden), The Real cluding Scapin, Rameau’s Nephew, The Servant Thing (Olney), and All My Sons (Williamstown). of Two Masters, The Imaginary Invalid, and the TV credits include the Law & Order trifecta, The musical Ubu Rock based on Jarry’s Ubu Roi. Education of Max Bickford, and Sex and the Belgrader directed these adaptations at theaters City. She is married to actor David Breitbarth. across the country. For television, he directed several episodes of the sitcom Coach, an episode Rachel Mewbron (understudy: Hilde of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and many Wangel, Kaja Fosli) is thrilled to be a part of episodes of Monk. He is originally from this company. A Georgian turned New Yorker, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress her recent stage credits include Abigail in The Caroline Hall, and daughter Grace. Belgrader Crucible (Hartford Stage, Connecticut Broadway teaches at the University of Southern California. World Award: Best Supporting Actress); Clarissa in In the Summer Pavilion (59E59); Alice in Santo Loquasto (scenic design) designs for You Can’t Take It With You (Chautauqua Theatre theater, film, dance, and opera. He has received Company); Miranda in (Shake- three and has been nominated 15 speare Theatre of New Jersey); and appearances times. Recent New York theater designs include at the Edinburgh Fringe, Samuel French Festival, Waiting for Godot, , and Wit. He has and NYC International Fringe. Credits from collaborated with Woody Allen on over 24 films, include Erika in HmatrixH receiving Academy Award nominations for pro- (directed by Mark Wing-Davey and Jim Calder), duction designs for Radio Days and Bullets Over Jo in boom (directed by Hal Brooks), and April Broadway and for the costume design of Zelig. in Acquainted with the Night (directed by Rachel He received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Chavkin). She received an MFA from the New Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted York University graduate acting program. into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts David Edgar’s (translation) plays for the Royal in 2006, and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Shakespeare Company include Destiny, May- Lifetime Achievement in 2007. days, and Pentecost; his plays for the National Theatre include Albert Speer and Playing with Marco Piemontese (costume design) has Fire. His stage adaptations include The Jail Diary designed for productions of Albie Sachs (revived at the Theatre of The Forest (2010), Three Sisters (2010), The Club) and his Tony award-winning adaptation of Cherry Orchard (2011), and Ivanov (2012). Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby, again for the RSC. Piemontese began working at Tirelli Costumes His two-play cycle about a west coast gover- in where he assisted some of the greatest nor’s election, Continental Divide, was jointly international costume designers, among them produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Maestro Piero Tosi and . He has Berkeley Rep. He founded Britain’s first graduate worked on films including Woody Allen’s Blue playwriting program, at the University of Bir- Jasmine (2012) and Whatever Works (2008), mingham, and is president of the Writers’ Guild Vampire Hunter (2011), and of Great Britain. ’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2013). Operas include Zeffirelli’s La Bohème Andrei Belgrader (director) is a theater and at La Scala (2006), La Traviata at La Fenice television director. The last shows he directed in (2004), and other productions including Franco New York were Beckett’s Endgame at BAM and Dragone’s The House of Dancing Waters, Macau Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at CSC (Lucille (2010), and Le Rêve, Las Vegas (2010). Lortel Awards, Best Revival). He has directed at Piemontese received his master’s degree in art the American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory, history at University of Florence. the Goodman, Seattle Rep, ACT, and off-Broad- way, as well as in Europe, including plays by JAMES F. INGALLS (lighting design) returns to Shakespeare, Molière, Gogol, Büchner, Nicolai BAM where his previous collaborations include Erdman, Joe Orton, , Beckett, Ionesco, John Adams’ El Niño, The Death of Klinghof- Tom Eyen, , Charles Mee, and others. fer and Nixon in China; Bach/Mahagony and He has adapted work for the stage with Shelley Zangezi, all directed by Peter Sellars. For the Berc, music by Rusty Magee, several plays in- Mark Morris Dance Group he has designed The Master Builder­

John Turturro and Wrenn Schmidt. Photo: Graeme Mitchell. Who’s Who

Mozart Dances; Romeo and Juliet - On Motifs of NANCY PICCIONE (casting) is the director of Shakespeare; The Hard Nut; Dido and Aeneas; casting at Manhattan Theatre Club. Broadway and L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed ll Moderato. credits include Venus in Fur, Wit, Time Stands Recent theater projects include The Big Knife Still, Topgirls, Shining City, and currently, The (Roundabout Theatre Company), Sense and Assembled Parties. She also cast Proof and The Sensibility (Denver Center Theatre Company), Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and their national My Name is Asher Lev (Westside/Upstairs), and tours. Off-Broadway credits include The Whip- Glengarry Glen Ross (Broadway). Recent dance ping Man, Ruined, Equivocation, and Regrets projects include Perpetual Dawn and To Make Only. Prior to working at Manhattan Theatre Crops Grow (Paul Taylor Dance Company), One- Club, she was a member of the casting staff at gin (American Ballet Theatre and National Ballet the New York Shakespeare Festival for 10 years, of Canada), and Don Quixote (San Francisco where she worked on Shakespeare in the Park Ballet). Recent opera projects include Tristan and and numerous productions at the Public Theatre. Isolde (Canadian Opera Company/Toronto), Les She served as American casting director for the Troyens (Metropolitan Opera), and Ainadamar 2009 and 2010 seasons of The Bridge Project, (Teatro Real/Madrid). He frequently collaborates produced by BAM and London. She with Melanie Rios Glaser and the Wooden Floor is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and a dancers in Santa Ana, CA. member of the Casting Society of America.

Ryan Rumery (original music, performer, and Christian Frederickson (original music, sound design) is a musician and composer living performer) is a violist, composer, and sound in . His work has been heard in theaters designer living in Brooklyn. He is a founding across the US, including the Broadway produc- member of the Louisville bands Rachel’s and tion of Thurgood starring . the Young Scamels, and is a graduate of the His recent off-Broadway works include All in Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School. the Timing (Primary Stages); What Rhymes Recent credits include Trojan Women (BAM Next with America (Atlantic); The Submission (MCC); Wave Festival 2012, with Anne Bogart and SITI 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center/LCT3); Ivanov, The Co.); The Painted Bird Trilogy (Wexner Center); A Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Orlando, Uncle Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Vanya (Classic Stage Company); The Emperor Unnatural Acts, Three Sisters (Classic Stage Jones (Irish Rep., Lortel nomination); and We Company); The Emperor Jones (Irish Repertory Live Here (MTC). Regionally Rumery has worked Theater, 2010 Lortel Nomination); Through on more than 175 shows. His film credits the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick); and Romeo and include Gatewood and SyncroNYCity. He plays Juliet and The Edge of Our Bodies (Actor’s drums in the Colorado band the Joy of Harm, Theatre of Louisville). which is finishing an EP produced by Craig Schumacher, and in -based Palis- ALICIA DHYANA HOUSE (assistant director) is simo’s The Painted Bird. an international director, educator, and acting coach based in New York City. Her work has PAUL HUNTLEY (wig design), from London, been seen at such venues as Jermyn Street has worked on hundreds of Broadway shows Theatre (London), Edinburgh Fringe, Atlantic since his arrival in New York in 1972, most Stage 2, HERE, Martin Segal Theatre, and memorably the original productions of , Culture Project. Directing credits include: Medea Cats, Evita, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The (Official Selection Prague Quadrennial 2011); Producers, and Hairspray. A recipient of Drama The Seagull; Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with Chance, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls; Sarah Ruhl’s the some of the most legendary leading ladies Eurydice and In the Next Room, Mary Zimmer- of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis, Mae man’s Metamorphoses, and ’s The West, Marlene Dietrich, and Vivien Leigh to Jane Real Thing. She has led theater workshops at Fonda, Faye Dunaway, , and Jessica New York University, Barnard, Whittier College, Lange. Current shows include Big Fish, Cinder- and in Hong Kong and Thailand. Since 2010 ella, and Nice Work if You Can Get It. House has been a guest director at Atlantic Theater Acting School and a directing mentor at Fordham University. For several years she was Who’s Who

the Humanities Manager at BAM. She received Samantha Watson (assistant stage manager) an MFA in directing from has worked on productions for BAM including where she was awarded the Shuffle Culture, Mic Check, The Bridge Project’s and Kennedy Center Directing Fellowships. Richard III starring Kevin Spacey (Old Vic, International Tour). Off-Broadway: The Jammer, James Latus’ (production stage manager) Harper Regan, Jackie and Me (Atlantic Theater theater experience includes Endgame at BAM. Company). New York: Arnie the Doughnut On Broadway: ’s Who’s Afraid of (NYMF), Love Lab (Lee Strasberg). International: Virginia Woolf, , The Pee-Wee Lear Dreaming (Singapore Arts Festival), The Herman Show, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields (The Arts Christmas, at Liberty, Stones Centre, Melbourne). Regional: A Midsummer in His Pockets, and Bells Are Ringing. As as- Night’s Dream, Notes from Underground, Res- sistant director: Paul Simon’s The Capeman. toration (La Jolla Playhouse); Much Ado About Off-Broadway: The Great American Trailer Park Nothing; and The Mock-Tempest (Shakespeare Musical; They Wrote That?, and The Persians at Santa Cruz). Music: A Few for Friends (Gala- National Actor’s Theatre. At , pagos Art Space), Tower Sounds (installation 21 productions including ’s by Ann Hamilton and Shahrokh Yadegari), and Roadshow, King Lear with Sam Waterston, King SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). Watson Lear with Kevin Kline, The Skriker, WASP by received her MFA from UC San Diego. , by David Hare, and Antony and Cleopatra starring and directed Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), by . At Playwrights Horizons: founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 Chinese Friends and Memory House directed by actors and stage managers in the US. Equity . Additionally, 12 productions seeks to advance, promote, and foster the art for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central of live theater as an essential component of our Park and shows at Young Playwrights Festival society. Equity negotiates wages and working and Theatre for a New Audience. Regional: conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, most including health and pension plans. AEA is a recently Two Gentlemen of Verona, New Jersey member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Utah Shake- FIA, an international organization of performing speare Festival, and McCarter Theatre. Interna- arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of tional: Oedipus at the Athens Festival. Training: excellence. actorsequity.org professional theater training program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906), the eldest of after his eventual return to , was pub- five children, was born in the coastal town of lished in December of 1892. The first perfor- Skien, Norway into a family that fell into poverty mance was on January 19, 1893 at the Lessing when he was eight. He worked in an apothecary, Theatre in . It was presented in London writing and painting in his spare time, and wrote later that year in a highly praised production his first play, Catilina, in 1850. He was em- at the Trafalgar Square Theatre, followed by ployed in theaters in Christiania (now ) and productions in , Stockholm, , counting among his jobs poet and direc- Gothenburg, , and other cities. The tor, and began fully focusing on writing in 1862, American premiere took place on January 16, moving to shortly thereafter. He spent the 1900 at the Carnegie Lyceum in New York, with next decades there and in , completing subsequent shows soon after in Washington and , A Doll’s House, , and Hedda Boston. His oeuvre remains among the most Gabler, among other works. widely performed.

The Master Builder, regarded as Ibsen’s most autobiographical play and his first work written