On April 14, Toril Moi will participate in a colloquium at the Oakley Center at Williams College, Williamstown. The discussion will focus on her (still unpublished) paper “Something that might resemble a kind of love”: Fantasy and Realism in Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf.” For more information, contact The Oakley Center.
Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre in London
I am thrilled to see that Jonathan Kent will be directing Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre in London. The production is scheduled to open in the Olivier Theatre on June 15, with Andrew Scott as Julian. This will be the UK premiere of this massive double play, originally written as a closet drama (a play intended to be read) in 1873. Here’s a link to a short article I wrote about Emperor and Galilean in 2006. The play is crucial to my understanding of Ibsen’s transformation of modern drama.  I devote a whole chapter to it  (chapter 6) in Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism.
Article on The Master Builder in The Guardian
My essay on The Master Builder has just been published in  The Guardian (Review section,  Saturday 4 December, 2010, page 14). I see that someone has posted a comment wondering why I don’t mention the new production of the play at the Almeida Theatre in London. The reason is that I haven’t seen it. (I was asked to write about Ibsen’s play, not to review the new production.) I would, of course, have loved to see Stephen Dillane and Gemma Arterton tackle Ibsen’s challenges. But I live in North Carolina!