Ibsen wrote a kind of Times best seller he wasn't 100 years ahead of his time -- he was 10 years ahead. It was the feminist anthem of its time -- the YMCA of feminism.
Ibsen wrote a kind of Times best seller he wasn't 100 years ahead of his time -- he was 10 years ahead. It was the feminist anthem of its time -- the YMCA of feminism.
One kind of man I impatiently scorn is the kind that looks bored if I mention Ibsen or ceramics or Aztec civilization but is interested instantly, alertly, if I mention my garters
Our season is dedicated to the memory of Arthur Miller, and he said his favorite playwright was Ibsen.
Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
She became the character she was playing in an Ibsen play she'd stalk around with grey hair. She was also the meanest woman in the world.
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like Finnegans Wake, and Picasso.
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