November 2006
| Oct. 26-Nov. 11 | Hedda Gabler and A Dolls’ House, in repertory
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance www.theatre.umn.edu University of Minnesota Contact Alicia Wiesneth at 612-625-4001 with questions. |
| Friday, November 3 | 7 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. |
| Saturday, November 4 | 7 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. |
| November 5-30 | Exhibit: “To be a poet is to see — Ibsen in our Time.” Multi-media exhibit. Lindell Library, Third Floor, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis. November 5-30. An exhibition highlighting Ibsen?s politically relevant and universal themes found in his plays and other writings. Presented in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Consulate. Free admission. |
| Sunday, November 5 | 2 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. Followed by reception at 4 pm in Lindell Library, 3rd level.4:00 pm Reception and opening of exhibit: “To be a poet is to see — Ibsen in our Time.” Multi-media exhibit. Lindell Library, Third Floor, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis. November 5-30. An exhibition highlighting Ibsen?s politically relevant and universal themes found in his plays and other writings. Presented in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Consulate. Free admission. Ibsen Film Festival (contact Arne Lunde with questions) All films are free of charge, and will be shown in #301 Lindell Library, Augsburg College. 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis.4:30 pm IMMORTAL IBSEN (documentary) Immortal Ibsen! (Ud�delig Ibsen!) Erling Borgen (Norway, 1999)Acclaimed Norwegian documentary film that explores Ibsen?s life and work. Narration in English. 40 min. TERJE VIGEN Victor Sj�str�m (Sweden, 1917) Landmark Swedish film drama based on Ibsen?s epic poem set during the Napoleonic wars (1807-1814). Terje Vigen (played by director Sj�str�m) is a seaman who must run the British naval blockade and row between Norway and Denmark to fetch barley for his starving family. This magnificent silent film uses coastal landscapes and seascapes stunningly and features new music (2006) by Norwegian composer Ketil Bj�rnstad. |
| Thursday, November 9 | 7 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. |
| Friday, November 10 | 7 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. |
| Friday, November 10 | Ibsen Film Festival 7pm THE WILD DUCK (Vilanden) Tancred Ibsen (Norway, 1963, with English subtitles). Lindell Library, Augsburg College.Tancred Ibsen was Henrik?s grandson, as well as Norway?s first important film artist during the 1930s and 1940s. The Wild Duck was his final film and his only adaptation of one of his grandfather?s works. Henki Kolstad stars as the self-deluded dreamer Hjalmar Ekdal and Wenche Foss plays his pragmatic wife Gina. Ibsen?s 1884 play combines comedy and tragedy seamlessly, and this 1963 film is both Tancred?s own last hurrah and an elegiac black-and-white tribute to his grandfather?s ghost. In Norwegian, with English subtitles. 100 min. |
| Saturday, November 11 | 7 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. |
| Sunday, November 12 | 2 pm. Hedda Gabler. Tjornhom Nelson Theater, Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside, Minneapolis A revolutionary and ground-breaking portrait of a brilliant but frustrated woman living in a stifling, male-dominated world. Directed by Martha Johnson. Admission: $10; $8 ACTC faculty, staff, students; $6 Augsburg students; reservations/information: 612 330-1257 or www.augsburg.edu/ theatre. |
| Sunday, November 12 | Ibsen Film Festival 4:30 pm A DOLL’S HOUSE Patrick Garland (England, 1973) Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins Powerful adaptation of Ibsen?s classic 1879 play on a woman?s struggle for selfhood and emancipation. Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins are moving and vivid as the bourgeois married couple, Nora and Torvald Helmer, whose marriage begins to quickly unravel under crisis. The British supporting cast (Delholm Elliot, Anna Massey, Edith Evans) is also splendid, particularly Ralph Richardson as the self-mocking and doomed Dr. Rank. 105 min. Lindell Library, Augsburg College. |
| Friday, November 17 | Ibsen Film Festival 7pm LADY INGER (Fru Inger til �str�t) Sverre Undn�s (Norway, 1975) This drama revolves around the Swedish uprising in 1528, when farmers from Dalarna supported the aristocracy in their fight against King Gustav Vasa. Lady Inger (Ingerid Vardund), the widow of royal advisor Nils Gyldenl�ve and of good family, is herself an economic and political force to be reckoned with. As the Swedish protestors approach her for support, a great political power game unfolds, involving enormous personal sacrifices. Adapted from Ibsen?s 1855 historical drama. In Norwegian, with English subtitles. 100 min. Lindell Library, Augsburg College. |
| Sunday, November 19 |
Ibsen Film Festival 4:30 pm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Eruj Skjoldbj�rg (Norway, 2005) Erik Skjoldbj�rg followed up his international hit Insomnia and Hollywood detour Prozac Nation with this contemporary-Norway updating of Ibsen?s 1882 play about business dreams, industrial poisons, cover-ups, and a lone whistleblower. TV-celebrity journalist Tomas Stockmann (J�rgen Langhelle) quits his job and returns to his home district in western Norway to bottle and market the world?s purest water. He discovers that the glacier water pools contain manmade toxins, a lab finding that pits him against the economic survival of his brother Peter (Sven Nordin) and his hometown?s citizens. |
| November 14-18 | Ibsen Seminar and Hedda Gabler at UND. The University of North Dakota Grand Forks are performing A Doll’s House at Burtness Theatre, UND, in November, and are planning an Ibsen seminar in conjunction with the performances. They are looking for ideas for speaker etc. for the seminar. Please contact Kathleen McLennan Chair Department of Theatre Arts Box 8136 University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 58202 Phone 701-777-2871with ideas and suggestions. |