Stage: Brand (Commonweal)

Ibsen Fest/The Commonweal Theatre; Lanesboro, Minnesota; April 4 – June 13, 2014

The publication of Brand in 1866 was Ibsen’s first claim to fame in most of Europe, “though unfortunately it is little known in America—at any rate among theatergoers,” wrote Harold Clurman in his 1977 Ibsen biography for the Masters of World Literature Series. Nonetheless, Clurman testifies to the play’s enduring impact:

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