About the project
The aim of the project is to consider the question of how one can account for the extraordinary international success of Ibsen’s plays.
Background
The project is being undertaken by an established international group of cooperating scholars, and will combine textual and performance analysis, informed by cultural analysis. Bringing together scholars from the fields of performance analysis, intercultural studies and literature makes the project unique.
The ambition is not to study aesthetic artefacts that are translated from an “original”, but to see the local performance as the original itself. Only from such a vantage point can one clarify the site-specific appropriation of the specific plays.
In this sense the project aims at working with relational questions. The relations to be studied are multifaceted. The question whether these relations contribute to a standardisation of aesthetic expression and valuation, or whether they should rather be seen as contributing to new forms of diversity will be central.
Financing
The project has received funding from The Norwegian Research Council.
Project description
Subprojects
Henrik Ibsen's plays in China
Sambhu Mitra's A Doll's House - Putul Hhela
Duration
2008 - 2012.