Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Declan Burke-Kennedy 

• Athchóirithe/ Aistrithe ó

  Henrik Ibsen

• Nótaí Faoin Údar

  Adapted from Ibsen's original.

• Achoimre

  Peer Gynt is a young man who has great potential as an artist but who is constantly at war with his physical desires. Despite his quest for absolute purity he repeatedly falls for the fleshy temptations of compromise, as he swaggers and seduces his way from the fjords of Norway to the deserts of Africa and back. Along the way he has a number of trials and adventures: he meets a young woman and they fall in love; he helps a bride escape from her wedding; he considers joining the Trolls; he becomes a successful businessman, loses it all, pretends to be an Arab prophet, and winds up in a lunatic asylum. Finally, he returns home to confront a creature called the Shadow, who has always been watching him and trying to teach him what it is to be human. It is the Shadow who forces Peer to consider returning to the woman he fell in love with so much earlier in the story, and pursue a career as an artist.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Athchóiriú/Aistriúchán
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  2

• Total

  5

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  07 October 1984

• Leiriú

  Produced by Cork Theatre Company

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  The Everyman
  

• Nótaí faoin Ionad

  First performed at the Father Matthew Hall, Dublin as part of a nationwide tour, before opening at the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork on October 22nd, 1984.

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was supplied by a member of Cork Theatre Company.