Stage: The Master Builder (BAM)

The Master Builder; Brooklyn Academy of Music; May 12—June 9, 2013

 Director Andrei Belgrader’s Master Builder, with the well-known American stage and screen actor John Turturro as Solness, is one of the most unfortunate Ibsen productions I have seen in the last ten years. It presents a script that makes nonsense of Ibsen’s text; a Hilda whose cartoon mouse delivery made spectators put their hands over their ears; and a Turturro struggling (and failing) not to make Solness resemble an over-the-top Tony Soprano.

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