Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

When A Doll's House was first published in 1879 it created a sensation. The play follows the ordinary life of a housewife. Gradually the tensions within her marriage become clear and build to a final, stunning...

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

by Henrik Ibsen & Una Ellis-Fermor

‘Don’t let’s have any more of these reminiscences, I tell you. You don’t know how you’re tormenting me, raking up all this’ In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems...

Four Major Plays, Volume II

by Henrik Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde & Terry Otten

The foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here are four of his greatest works: Ghosts, An Enemy of the People,...

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen & Simon Stephens

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.'

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen,...

The Lady from the Sea

by Henrik Ibsen & David Eldridge

David Eldridge’s new version of Ibsen’s classic play, published to coincide with the production at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

When the lighthouse keeper’s daughter Ellida meets the widower Dr...

John Gabriel Borkman

by David Eldridge & Henrik Ibsen

Disgraced and destitute following a fraud scandal and imprisonment, John Gabriel Borkman paces alone in an upstairs room. Downstairs, his family is trapped in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a household bound...