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The Dramatic Arts and Design Academy (DADA) will host a theatre festival under the auspices of the Royal Norwegian Embassy to present the richness and diversity of the work of Henrik Ibsen and the varied manifestations of his text performed by international theatre groups. The seven productions being featured at the Delhi Ibsen Festival 2012 are experiments into new directions. Five productions are specially created for the festival. All the productions are extremely innovative very special, in the wide range of Ibsen's plays that are being featured, as well as the quality of the productions. TO VIEW MORE DETAILS AND BUY TICKETS
DEC 01 - The Master Builder Here's the story of a man driven to his destruction by rebounding female energy -- in response of his exploitation of others, particularly women. More About The Play There is a story and a meta-story in this play. The story speaks of a man who, having exploited others-particularly women-all his life, is now driven to destruction by a rebounding female energy. The meta story emphasizes on the Ibsenian short dialogue phrasing leaves a lot of space for interpretations suited to different times and cultures; the never-ending wars between old and young, between men and women; and the force vitale, which drives some characters beyond their limits. DEC 02 - When We Dead Awaken
This is one of Henri Ibsen's most dreamlike plays. 'When We Dead Awaken' is also one of his most despairing. The play is suffused by an intense desire for life, but whether it can be achieved is left problematic, given the play's ironic conclusion. The play opens with Rubek, an aging sculptor, and his wife Maia living an unhappy life. Rubek comes across a mysterious woman dressed in white, accompanied by a girl. This turns out to be Irene, Rubek’s former model. And the girl who shadows Irene is the piercing conscience that Irene constantly lives with. She has been leading a miserable life for which she accuses Rubek of having stolen her soul. DEC 03 - Ghosts
‘Ghosts’ is about the animal instincts in all of us. Written in 1881, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. This is an Uzbek adaptation. The most greedy and ‘dirty’ among all characters as we see is Engstrand, a carpenter. He is also instigator of all evil, a kind of prototype of Lucifer, the fallen angel, trying to show the foulness and lust; having forgotten its spiritual nature. In short, showing our animal nature. All the heroes of the play become the carpenter’s players in his ‘game’. Even Pastor Manders, who because of his ignorance and fears, without even realizing, allows Engstrand to lead these people to disaster, despair and a terrible fall. DEC 04 - Gurrya Ka Ghar
A play in Urdu based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. The play opens with the ‘cast and stagehands’ arriving at a mock-up stage for the ‘rehearsal of a play’. The rehearsal progresses to unfold the story of Tehmina, a typical Pakistani middle class woman, faithfully devoted to her husband Murad. For many years Tehmina has been the perfect woman – an adoring, doting wife, and a loving and caring mother. Besides being a capable housewife, she also does voluntary work at a Shelter Home for destitute women and has brought the homeless Sakina to stay with her. Sakina belongs to the working class and has learnt many bitter lessons about life from her own experiences. DEC 05 - The Lady from the Sea
One of Ibsen’s most relevant plays, The Lady from the Sea, is about the art of making the right choices and living the life one wants. The question the play asks: is it possible to choose the life you want? It is a sunny summer when the play opens with Ellida Wangel, living in a small town situated in the nook of a fjord in Western Norway is introduced to the audience. After the death of Doctor Wangel’s first wife, he married the daughter of the lighthouse keeper - Ellida - who grew up by the sea. DEC 06 - Jai Jawaan Party
Jai Jawaan Party is an adaptation of the play, The League of Youth by Henrik Ibsen. Though rooted in serious events of the time when it was written, the original play of Ibsen was lauded for its natural and witty dialogue, cynical humour and farcical intrigue. It was a slashing attack on political hypocrisy of his time and the imaginative egotist reappears farcically as an ambitious young lawyer politician who, smarting under a snub from a local landowner and county magnate, relieves his feelings with such a passionate explosion of radical eloquence, that he is cheered to the echo by the progressive party. Intoxicated with this success, he imagines himself a great leader of the people and a wielder of the mighty engine of democracy. DEC 07 - An Enemy of People
An Enemy of the People addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. The play’s heated discussion of ‘Just’, who should control the levers of power in a society, whether the intellectually superior, forward-thinking individual or the mindless majority should dictate public policy, makes for savoury meat to chew on. It is the story of one brave man, whose voice loud and clear as cicada, struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance.
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