Après l'incendie de sa maison et la mort de ses enfants, le constructeur Solness va-t-il être capable de revivre grâce à la jeunesse qui frappe à sa porte, comme un rêve? ... 
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Le constructeur solness

Dans une mise en scène de Jean-François Sivadier : du 7 au 15 mars à la MC2 Grenoble, du 10 mai au 15 juin au théâtre de l'Odéon (Paris). Les frères Tomas et Peter Stockmann se ressemblent comme le jour à la nuit. Ensemble, ils ont pourtant fondé l'"établissement des bains" d'une petite ville portuaire du sud de la Norvège. Tomas, médecin intègre, mesure la qualité des eaux. En tant que maire, Peter compte sur la prospérité de la station thermale pour asseoir son pouvoir. Quand les eaux s'avèrent contaminées par la tannerie locale, les masques tombent. Le médecin croit devoir la vérité au peuple quand le politicien ne songe qu'à défendre ses intérêts. Le socle d'une pure tragédie ? Henrik Ibsen maintient sa fable sur une crête plus ambigüe. Autour de la fratrie déchirée, les citoyens papillonnent, hésitent et bifurquent jusqu'à la bouffonnerie. Quant à nous, c'est entre la consternation et le rire franc que nous balançons. PERSONNAGES : DEUX FEMMES, NEUF HOMMES, UN GROUPE DE PERSONNES DUREE ESTIMEE : 2 H 15

Un ennemi du peuple

Un Ennemi Du Peuple

- Les Piliers de la société- Une maison de poupée- Les Revenants- Un ennemi du peuple- Le Canard sauvage- Rosmersholm- La Dame de la mer- Hedda Gabler- Solness le constructeur- Le Petit Eyolf- John Gabriel Borkman- Quand nous nous réveillerons d'entre les morts

Drames Contemporains

Les douze dernières pièces 1: Les piliers de la société/Maison de Poupée/Les Revenants

From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky: "Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But circumstances are against our doing so. I am at present engaged upon a new dramatic work, which for several reasons has made very slow progress, and I do not leave Munich until I can take with me the completed first draft. There is little or no prospect of my being able to complete it in July." Ibsen did not leave Munich at all that season. On October 30 he wrote: "At present I am utterly engrossed in a new play. Not one leisure hour have I had for several months." Three weeks later (November 20) he wrote to his French translator, Count Prozor: "My new play is finished; the manuscript went off to Copenhagen the day before yesterday.... It produces a curious feeling of emptiness to be thus suddenly separated from a work which has occupied one's time and thoughts for several months, to the exclusion of all else. But it is a good thing, too, to have done with it. The constant intercourse with the fictitious personages was beginning to make me quite nervous." To the same correspondent he wrote on December 4: "The title of the play is Hedda Gabler. My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda, as a personality, is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than as her husband's wife. It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. What I principally wanted to do was to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day."

Hedda Gabler

With The Master Builder-or Master Builder Solness, as the title runs in the original-we enter upon the final stage in Ibsen's career. "You are essentially right, " the poet wrote to Count Prozor in March 1900, "when you say that the series which closes with the Epilogue (When We Dead Awaken) began with Master Builder Solness."

"Ibsen, " says Dr. Brahm, "wrote in Christiania all the four works which he thus seems to bracket together-Solness, Eyolf, Borkman, and When We Dead Awaken. He returned to Norway in July 1891, for a stay of indefinite length; but the restless wanderer over Europe was destined to leave his home no more.... He had not returned, however, to throw himself, as of old, into the battle of the passing day. Polemics are entirely absent from the poetry of his old age. He leaves the State and Society at peace. He who had departed as the creator of Falk [in Love's Comedy] now, on his return, gazes into the secret places of human nature and the wonder of his own soul."

The Master Builder

Un des drames les plus amers et désolés du grand homme de théâtre norvégien.

Le constructeur solness

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