Peer Gynt (FR)
Experience Peer Gynt in a brilliant French production, which transforms the National Theatre’s main stage into an abandoned amusement park, complete with a crumbling roller coaster and a frozen Ferris wheel.
Directed by David Bobée
"Presenting Peer Gynt in this day and age means evoking current events and examining our mismanaged world. It is about standing up against a brutal, dark and silent reality. All of Ibsen’s plays are about questioning values and meeting expectations."
So says French director and theatre manager David Bobée, whose production of Peer Gynt has been met with great acclaim.
Ibsen’s play spans half a century, from adolescence to old age. Enough time to travel to all corners of the world. Enough time to attempt an answer to the fundamental question of who you really are.
Set on great achievements, Peer Gynt, braggart, scoundrel, and a lawless egotist, flees his village and his mother, his peasant life, his responsibilities, his love, and his women – to find the “self” he longs to be.
Do not miss the opportunity to experience Peer Gynt in this magnificent French production, with a set resembling an abandoned amusement park, complete with a crumbling roller coaster and a Ferris wheel frozen in mid-air. Where, just like the stage design conjures up mountains, forests, ships and crew, Peer conjures up his fantasies.
Director: David Bobée
Set Designer: David Bobée and Aurélie Lemaignen
Dramaturg: Catherine Dewitt
Assistant director: Sophie Colleu
Lighting Designer: Stéphane Babi Aubert
Sound Designer: Jean-Noël Françoise
Costume Designer: Pascale Barré
Composer and musician: Butch McKoy
Actors: Clémence Ardoin, Jérôme Bidaux, Pierre Cartonnet, Amira Chebli, Catherine Dewitt, Radouan Leflahi, Thierry Mettetal, Grégori Miège, Marius Moguiba and Lou Valentini.