Sign-In
Cart
Ellida: a new translation of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady of the Sea
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781760622312
Publisher: Currency Press
Published: May 17 2018
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.39 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
'You can't stop me from choosing. You can keep me here by force. You have the power to do that. But my choice comes from deep inside me...'
What does it mean to be free? To be truly independent?
Ellida - a lighthouse keeper's daughter - is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Dr Wangel in a coastal fjord town when a stranger from her past arrives, upsetting the fragile equilibrium she and Wangel had created.
In The Lady From the Sea, Henrik Ibsen explores the themes found in his earlier work, challenging and exposing the conventions of marriage and society with biting satire and subtle humour, and an ending that raises as many questions as it resolves. In this fresh adaptation by May-Brit Akerholt, the pull of the tide meets the stability of the land. Questions of freedom and responsibility, conformity and independence, emotion and rationality prove startlingly contemporary, as relevant as when Ibsen first penned the play in 1888.
Also from
Akerholt, May-Brit
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
Fairman, H. W.
Hardcover
Also in
Plays
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
The Major Plays: Ivanov, the Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, the Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton
Paperback
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Sophocles
Euripides
Aeschylus
Paperback
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Fondakowski, Leigh
Pierotti, Greg
Kaufman, Moises
Paperback
FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
McFarlane, James
Arup, Jens
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition (Large Print Edition)
Thomas Nelson
Hardcover
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Wilder, Thornton
Paperback
Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
Hingley, Ronald
Chekhov, Anton
Paperback