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John Gabriel Borkman

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 3m

Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas Wright

A new translation of the Ibsen classic by Nicholas Wright.

John Gabriel Borkman

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    Cast Size
    5w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptations (Stage & Screen)

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Summary
John Gabriel Borkman, a former 'pillar of the community', has been in voluntary seclusion in an upstairs room since enduring a prison sentence for embezzlement. His wife, her twin sister, his son and even Borkman himself are all trapped in the suffocating atmosphere of this claustrophobic household.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

At age 23, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) became theatre director and resident playwright of the new National Theatre at Bergen, charged with creating a national drama. He directed the Norwegian Theatre in Kristiana from 1857 to 1863, when the theatre went bankrupt. He then set off ...

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Nicholas Wright

Nicholas Wright
Nicholas Wright was born in Cape Town. He trained as an actor and joined the Royal Court Theatre in London as Casting Director before becoming the first director of the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs, where he presented an influential programme of new and first-time writing. ...
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