Die Theateredition – Peer Gynt (with German subtitle)

Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen
a Five-Act Play in Verse, 1867

Det Norske Teatret
Stage Director – Erik Ulfsby

Nynorsk Text – Jon Fosse

70 years after Det Norske Teatret first staged Peer Gynt, Erik Ulfsby and his excellent team have developed a new version, with the role of old Peer congenially filled by Toralv Maurstad.

The play’s original chronology has been broken up and fragments of Peer’s life reordered – all observed by an aged spirit who is on the threshold to the other side.

Maurstad’s acting is “overwhelmingly great. He carries the role of Peer Gynt on his 92-year-old shoulders. This is pure theatrical magic.”

Toralv Maurstad – Old Peer Gynt
Svein Tindberg – Button-moulder
Ingrid Jørgensen Dragland – Mother Aase
Sara Khorami – Solveig
Younger Peer Gynt: Jan Grønli, Geir Kvarme, Paul-Ottar Haga, Pål Christian Eggen, Karl-Vidar Lende, Niklas Gundersen, Jonas Fuglevik Urstad
Judy Nyambura Karanja – The old man of the Dovre
Charlotte Frogner – A green-clad woman
Geir Kvarme – Begriffenfeldt
Unn Vibeke Hol – A Pastor
Paul Åge Johannessen – Captain/Master Cotton
Ragnar Dyresen – A Fellah
Ailo Johannes Winther – Peer Gynt as a child

TV-Director – Stein-Roger Bull
Producer NordicStories – Rune H. Trondsen

A production by Det Norske Teatret, recorded by NordicStories AS in cooperation with NRK, 2019

© Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd, 2020

DVD THE08063
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