Stage: John Gabriel Borkman (Berkeley)

Aurora Theatre Company; Berkeley; April 2—May 9, 2010

The surge in recent productions of John Gabriel Borkman, which is all out of proportion to the play’s previously scant production track record, is of course mostly due to its sudden relevance in the wake of the global financial crises and scandals of the past decade. As yet another Ibsen play offers up a ready-made hook for today’s audiences, one does in fact have to admire Ibsen’s skill in identifying topics that constantly reactivate as “hot” and “contemporary” more than one hundred years later.

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