The Norwegian Ibsen Company

Music & culture

Mar 3

Who: The Norwegian Ibsen company

What: When We Dead Awaken

Where: Norway

Project period: 2022

Web: Ibsen company

The Norwegian Ibsen Company recently premiered at the Coronet Theater in London. After the award-winning The Lady From The Sea, they are back with a new adaptation of "When We Dead Awaken" / "When We Dead Awaken" Henrik Ibsen's enigmatic ending.

In the depths of a winter, Rubek, once a famous sculptor, returns to Norway with his estranged young wife Maia - only to encounter his great lost love and muse Irene.

Is this their opportunity to return to a world where there is meaning, hope and happiness - to wake up from the dead?

The production is directed by the famous Norwegian director Kjetil Bang Hansen, in his first production in the UK. It has a Norwegian / British cast, and is performed in a mixture of Norwegian and English. The production is touring in Norway after the premiere in the UK

"When We Dead Awaken is a strange, beautiful and bitter play about art, love, ambition and freedom. As a musical quartet, 4 people, 4 elements, 4 voices, 4 instruments play different songs in a complicated melody. It is a play for our time, as they are in a changed world. Confused, how do they move on? ” - Director Kjetil Bang Hansen.