Henrik and Emilie
In this co-production between the National Theatre and Riksteatret, Niels Fredrik Dahl has freely dramatized the encounters between Henrik Ibsen and Emilie Bardach, based on the few fragments of their story we know.
Directed by Lars Erik Holter / Riksteatret
“But it has been written, you see. True love has been written! Everything I have lived, I have lived in order to write; everything that could have been life, has been writing.” - Henrik Ibsen to Emilie Bardach
In 1889, Henrik Ibsen met the much younger Emilie Bardach at the holiday resort Gossensass in Tyrol. Ibsen was there with his wife and son, but the encounter between the aging writer and the young girl became a landmark experience for them both. The short time they spent together would impact the rest of Emilie Bardach’s life, while Ibsen, after repeatedly expressing his strong emotions for her, suddenly broke off all contact and later denied that anything significant happened between them.
Director: Lars Erik Holter. Scenographer/animator: Tormod Lindgren. Animator: Jean Marc Leprêtre. Lighting designer: Torkjel Skjærven. Sound designer: Erik Hedin. Makeup and wig designer: Haakon Sitje. Dramaturge: Tine Thomassen.
The cast: Per Jansen, Marit Østbye, Gard B. Eidsvold, Kaia Varjord, Jan Huse.