Created and performed by Juni Dahr

Music created and performed by Chris Poole

Lighting design:  Marianne Thallaug Wedset

 

IBSEN WOMEN was conceived in the United States while I was touring with Joan of Arc. Being a Norwegian actress, I was often asked aboout Ibsen’s dramas. This inspired me to present the Norwegian master playwright through some of his female characters.

Through improvisations based on fragments of Ibsen’s text, «Ibsen Women» slowly evolved in an empty space with a minimum of props and decoration.

«Ibsen Women» was first presented at the International Ibsen symposium held at Yale University in April 1989.

Put an eagle in a cage and it will bite the bars wether they are of iron or gold», says Hjørdis in The Vikings of Helgeland.

Playing Hjørdis, under thr direction of John Barton from the Royal Shakespear Company, opened my mind to Ibsen’s challenging questions to freedom and life itself. Henrik Ibsen reveals a deep understandiing of women – but where did he get his knowledge from? Through his characters he makes us experience our own lives. Henrik Ibsen is the genius that tempts us to explore his women looking for the essence, the source, the spirit that makes these female characters so facinating even today.

History
Ibsen Women – put an eagle in a cage, 1989 – 2011

The International Ibsen Symposium, Yale University april 1989.

Nominated  beste “one act play”  ”Scenario 89” in Oslo. “Critics Award” i Los Angeles 1991, Ibsen Prize Skien 1995. First prize in Carracas Theaterfestival 1995.

International Tours and Festivals:

USA; Washington DC; Arena Stage, Smithsonian Institute, New York: Women Festival, John Houseman Theatre. FN.Los Angeles; Westwood Playhouse, San Fransisco, Rochester, Boston; Seattle, Tacoma, Midtvesten. CANADA : Fogo Island Newfoundland, EUROPE: London, Stratford; The Swan theatre, Glasgow, Stockholm, København, Århus, Ålborg, Odense, Thorshavn, Færøyene, Reykavik, Island, Leningrad, St. Petersburg,Vilnus, Parnu, Riga, Thallin,Parnu,Tampere, Lisboa, Barcelona, Munchen, Roma, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Ukraina, Kiel, Warzawa, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Krakow, Kiew, Brüssel. ASIA: Jakarta Indonesia, Bangladesh Dhaka, India New Dehli og Calcutta, Pakistan Lahore, Kina Beijing, “Womens Conference 96 Beijing” Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Ossaka. Israel og Palestina: Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv. SOUTH AMERICA: Caracas, Bogota

Numerous Tours and Festivals in Norway.

Idé/aristic consept JUNI DAHR,