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THE MASTER By Henrik Ibsen BUPresented in associationILDER with MiNDFOOD EDUCATION PACK PRESENTING PARTNER: 2020 2020 About The ProductionCONTENTS Sound P.04 P.27 THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER Thanks to our supporters Stage to Screen Post-show Activities P.06 P.30 Updating a Classic Resources and P.11 Additional Reading P.33 Direction P.14 ATC Creative Learning P.34 Key Themes Auckland Theatre Company receives principal and core funding from: P.18 Curriculum Links P.35 Set and Lighting P.23 This pack was supported by Drama NZ ATC Creative Learning also thanks the ATC Patrons and with funding by Networks of Expertise (NEX) the ATC Supporting Acts for their ongoing generosity Supported by our university partner – AUT Running Time: 88 minutes, without an interval. The production is in three Acts. Each Act can be viewed separately and run at approximately 30 minutes each. Suitability: This production is suitable for Year Levels 11 – 13 Advisory: Contains occasional use of strong language and sexual references 2 1 2020 THE THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER MASTER By Henrik Ibsen PresentedBU in associationILDER with MiNDFOOD CAST Solness — Andrew Grainger Mrs Solness — Hera Dunleavy | Dr Herdal — Nicola Kawana Brovik — Ian Mune | Ragnar — Justin Rogers Kaja Fosli — Holly Hudson | Hilde Wangel — Kalyani Nagarajan CREATIVE Director — Colin McColl | Set and Lighting Designer — Tony Rabbit Composer and Sound Designer — John Gibson | Costume Designer — Nic Smillie MUSICIANS John Gibson and Marcel Bear ENSEMBLE Adeline Esther, George Maunsell, Joseph Nathan, Travis Graham, Fabian MacGregor, Salome Grace Neely, Nadine Kemp, Ben Lamb, Lucas Haugh, Matthew Kereama PRODUCTION Production Manager — Andrew Malmo | Company Manager — Nicole Sarah Stage Manager — Maddy Powell | Assistant Stage Manager — Chiara Niccolini Technical Manager — Kevin Greene | Lighting Operator — Ruby van Dorp Sound Operator — Andrew Furness | Props Master — Selina Ershadi Wardrobe Supervisor — Sheridan Miller | Director of Photography — Adam Luxton Sound Recordist — Ant Nevison | B-Cam Operator — Riki Reinfeld C-Cam Operator — Andrew Blackman | Set Construction — Camelspace ATC CREATIVE LEARNING Associate Director — Lynne Cardy | Youth Arts Coordinator — Mile Fane Education Pack Writer — Emma Bishop | Education Pack Editor — Lynne Cardy Design images courtesy of Tony Rabbit and Nic Smillie Graphic Design — Wanda Tambrin | Images — Andrew Malmo and Chiara Niccolini 2 3 2020 2020 THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER ABOUT THE BUILDER THE MASTER PRODUCTIONThrough talent and hard work, Halvard Solness has achieved no small measure of fame and fortune. But the unexpected return of Hilde Wangel to his life threatens to shake the foundations of his success. ATC On Stage|On Screen presents one of Ibsen’s most fascinating and enigmatic works in a new hybrid of theatre and film. In this high-quality studio adaptation of The Master Builder, a successful builder and property developer has his creative flame reignited by a young woman from his past, with dramatic consequences. Ibsen specialist and ATC Artistic Director Colin McColl presents a magnificent work from a master playwright, in an innovative post- COVID-19 format. 4 5 2020 2020 THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER STAGE TO BUILDER THE MASTER SCREEN Cancelled as a mainstage REHEARSING IN BUBBLES production in the face of the Following lockdown it was COVID-19 pandemic, and then important for Auckland Theatre reconceived as a film of a live Company (ATC) to provide a safe studio performance, The Master rehearsal room that catered for Builder went into rehearsal in social distancing from each other May 2020, after Aotearoa/New for The Master Builder team, and Zealand’s lockdown restrictions from the rest of the ATC staff. eased and actors and creatives Nicole Sarah, company manager could return to the rehearsal explains some of the procedures room. put in place: “We created a separate Presented in June as a short greenroom in the rehearsal room season of performances before for The Master Builder company an audience in the studio, the and allocated toilets to them. That production captures the simplicity, way they did not have to share any spirit and energy of a final run in spaces with the rest of ATC. We also the rehearsal room. scheduled it so that the rehearsal The performance was then room ‘bubble’ overlapped as little as filmed for release on digital possible with the office ‘bubble’. We platforms. Director Colin McColl got this down to two days but then says “I quickly learnt that the stayed at different ends of the office rhythm, the dynamics of the story building so never saw each other could be in the way it was shot anyway. As the Covid alert levels and edited as well as the actor’s shifted we were able to change the performances.” way we rehearsed too so actors could start getting closer”. 6 7 2020 THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER Inside the rehearsal room, preparing to film the production. Cast from L – R: Hera Dunleavy (Mrs Solness), Andrew Grainger (Solness) 8 and Kalyani Nagarajan (Hilde) 2020 2020 THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER UPDATING BUILDER THE MASTER Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder premiered on 19 January 1893 in Berlin. Colin McColl’s new version of The Master Builder premiered on A23 June 2020CL in Auckland, ASSIC New Zealand. THE CLASSIC THE CONTEMPORARY Ibsen’s The Master Builder was Colin McColl’s The Master Builder written in 1892 immediately after was originally intended as a full Hedda Gabler and represents a shift production on the ASB Waterfront in Ibsen’s form from the realism of Theatre stage but was adapted his “problem” plays like An Enemy during the COVID-19 lockdown of the People, Ghosts and A Doll’s to be presented (in Alert Level 1) House, to the expressionism of his before a live audience at the ATC final theatre works. rehearsal studios and then filmed for online release. THE PLAYWRIGHT: THE ADAPTOR/DIRECTOR: Henrik Ibsen Colin McColl Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th- Internationally regarded for his century Norwegian playwright, productions of Ibsen’s plays, theatre director, and poet. He is Colin McColl has directed for the often referred to as “the father of Norwegian National Theatre and the realism” and is one of the founders Dutch National Theatre, as well as of Modernism in theatre. Major works leading New Zealand and Australian include Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the theatre companies. He is the only People, Emperor and Galilean, A New Zealand director to be invited Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts to present his work (Hedda Gabler) and The Master Builder. He is the at the official Edinburgh Festival. most frequently performed dramatist Colin has won Best Director at in the world after Shakespeare. the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards Ibsen was born in Norway; his several times – including for his plays were written in Danish. His Circa Theatre production of A Doll’s first play was published (but not House. In 2015, Colin directed Emily performed) when he was 22. He Perkins’ new version of Ibsen’s A left Norway in 1864 for Italy, where Doll’s House for Auckland Theatre many of his major plays were written. Company and in 2017 he directed Eli Only four years later, he moved to Kent’s Peer Gynt (Recycled) at the Germany, where he wrote both A ASB Waterfront Theatre. Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler. He did not return to Norway until 1891. Ibsen died in Oslo in 1906. 10 11 2020 2020 Discussing the process of adapting of the uneducated country much gets lost in translation. But COLIN’S TOP 3 TIPS FOR The Master Builder, Colin says boy he was. There has been a even in Norway it’s not uncommon ADAPTATION: “they’re called classics for a great debate over the years for some of the language to be • Know the play very well reason. The themes in plays like about Hilde’s line” I have some updated”. • Be scrupulous. The Master Builder are universal underwear here – but it’ll need He goes on to say, “I’ve kept • Using a dramaturg works THE MASTER BUILDER THE MASTER and can speak to different ages in washing, it’s a bit shitty.” There’s the Norwegian names for the BUILDER THE MASTER different ways. I never consciously a specific word in Norwegian for characters, but I have altered think about “adapting” these “dirty underwear” “skittent” – and a few things here and there for plays, I am always just looking at the slang New Zealand phrase “it’s clarity and modernity. For instance, them from now”. a bit shitty” is so much closer to Solness and Hilde discuss how his WHAT’S IN A NAME? new home has a very high tower In Norway over 100 years on it (who puts towers on houses ago, when the play was these days?) So, I changed it to written, people’s last names “I never consciously think about an apartment block with Solness’s were prefaced by what they new home on the Penthouse “adapting” these plays, I am always did – their jobs. In Norwegian floors. However, the description of the play is called Bygmester the Mrs Solness’s old family home just looking at them from now.” Solness (Master Builder as “a big ugly wooden structure Solness). What connections Colin McColl with a garden that ran right down do you make with the name into the gully” fitted perfectly for Master Builder today? Auckland. I imagined the house on Colin thinks you must read Ibsen’s original – than, for example, Mt Eden or somewhere.” classic plays with a contemporary “I do have some underwear that sensibility and not regard them I keep in the knapsack. But it’s as museum pieces. “Every play in badly in need of a wash.

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