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Baumeister Solness
Henrik Ibsen
Meistras Solnesas · translated from the Norwegian by Leonas Petravičius
Premiere 07.03.2009Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius
Yana Ross
For Ibsen’s audience, what we call a “mid-life crisis” came late in life. An accomplished man in his 60s could afford a grand spiritual turmoil, but in the XXI century it comes much earlier. In this production, Solness is barely forty. He’s got it all on the surface: family, career, beautiful house he designed and legendary memories of ambitious past. Let the young woman whisk it all away…
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Team
- Direction
- Yana Ross
- Set & costume
- Marijus Jacovskis
- Music
- Faustas Latėnas
Cast
- Halvard Solness
- Algirdas Gradauskas
- Hilde Wangel
- Miglė Polikevičiūtė / Toma Vaškevičiūtė
- Aline Solness
- Diana Anevičiūtė / Jurga Kalvaitytė
- Doctor Herdal
- Remigijus Bučius
- Ragnar
- Robertas Balčiūnas
- Kaja
- Donata Kielaitė
Read the press 1 review
Rasa Vasinauskaitė, 7 meno dienos, 13 March 2009 (translated from Lithuanian)
This time, the risk Ross is taking on pushing Ibsen to ascetic modern setting and playing with extreme minimalistic approach, creating shadow play of metaphysics doesn’t deliver the same striking result as before her bold form and charged acting did in Bambiland and other earlier performances