An Enemy of the People in Oslo

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An Enemy of the People in Oslo

PR Newswire

OSLO, Norway, June 12, 2012

OSLO, Norway

,

June 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo is the original and has

inspired Ibsen Festivals around the world from Tokyo to Delhi to

Minnesota. This festival hosts the world's biggest theatre award and

stages a very different version of An Enemy of the People.

An Enemy of the People

could not be more relevant. A play about an individual

who stands against his own people, Rimini Protokoll turns it into a study of the

city today asking: Do you agree that in matters of right and wrong the individual

should take precedence over the multitude? Is "the strongest man in the world

(…) the man who stands most alone?"

The Ibsen Festival has become an influential voice in world theatre and is not

scared of controversy. Ibsen was a controversial playwright who changed

theatre in

Europe

dramatically. The festival reflects this by showcasing truly

original versions of Ibsen's own plays and performances by influential

international playwrights and directors.

The International Ibsen Award is the world's biggest theatre award. This year,

the award goes to German composer and director Heiner Goebbels. Two guest

performances by Goebbels,

Eraritjaritjaka

and

Stifters Dinge

are included in the

festival programme and the award ceremony and reception take place

Saturday 8

th

September.

It is extraordinary that a little country in the far north has produced such

worldclass playwrights; Ibsen is one of the wold's most famous playwrights,

contemporary Jon Fosse is being performed all over the world and now Arne

Lygre is set to follow in Fosse's footsteps. Arne Lygre's

I disappear

will be

performed during the festival.

The International Ibsen Festival is hosted by the National Theatre in

Oslo

23

rd

August-9

th

September 2012

.

Notes to editors:

Ibsen was born in

Norway

in 1828

Some of his most famous plays are

A Doll's House

,

Ghosts

,

Peer Gynt

and

Hedda

Gabler

Ibsen has been translated into 78 languages and performed in countries all over the

world for over 100 years

Ibsen influenced European writers such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and

James Joyce

Many consider Ibsen the greatest playwright since Shakespeare

Ibsen spent much of his life in

Germany

and

Italy

Festival press passes and invites to the award ceremony for the International

Ibsen Award are available. For more information, please visit

nationaltheatret.no and http://www.internationalibsenaward.com or contact

publicity manager Stine Strachan on [e-mail].