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The Wild Duck

(This is a past event and is no longer running)

By Henrik Ibsen

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“A flawless production: understated elegance and meticulous performances underscore a searing clarity of vision.” (Everything Theatre)

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“Worth dropping everything to see.” (Fringe Review)

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“The screw turns slowly, but with devastating effect.” (The Arts Desk)

 

Should truth be pursued at all cost?

The Coronet’s major drama production of the building’s 10th Anniversary Season is a new staging of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, in a co-production with The Norwegian Ibsen Company and Bergen’s Den Nationale Scene.

Using Ibsen’s original text, The Norwegian Ibsen Company will bring its distinctive perspective on the dramatic and comic genius of Norway’s greatest playwright. The Coronet’s partnership with The Norwegian Ibsen Company has delivered sell-out co-productions of When We Dead Awaken and The Lady from The Sea, which received both audience and critical acclaim.

“When we catch ourselves in the mirror in the morning, we hold our stomach in. When we smile at each other through the window of social media, it’s a fake and filtered smile. We fictionalize and stage our lives for ourselves and one another—but are we blind to the truth?” (Alan Lucien Øyen, director)

In The Wild Duck, Ibsen envisions the deadly danger of idealism with the story of a family torn apart by the revelation of a web of secrets. The arrival of an outsider, whose idealistic mission is to reveal all in the name of truth and honesty, has shocking consequences.

Using Ibsen’s original text, this brand new staging, which is performed in Norwegian with English surtitles, has a cast of some of Norway’s most celebrated actors, and is directed by Hedda Award-winner Alan Lucien Øyen.

 

 

Written by
Henrik Ibsen

Direction, Set Design & Sound Design by
Alan Lucien Øyen

Cast
Kåre Conradi, Svein Harry Hauge, Hermine Svortevik Oen, Yvonne Øyen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Christian Rubeck,  Bjørn Skagestad and Line Verndal

Costume Design by
Silje Teland Pedersen

Lighting Design by
Martin Flack

With the Support of
The Norwegian Embassy, Det Norske Teatret

With Thanks to
Riksteatret

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Alan Lucien Øyen
Alan Lucien Øyen is a choreographer, writer, director, founder and Artistic Director of the company Winter Guests, an associate artist at Oslo Opera House, and is commissioned internationally to create work for opera, contemporary dance and theatre. He was a guest choreographer for the renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, and has won many awards, both for his choreographic works and his theatre productions.

Alan’s works have a highly emotional and dramatic drive. His choreographic language is complex and technically challenging, informed by the world around him which allows him to draw inspiration from a myriad of sources including high art and popular culture as well as personal conversations and experiences – always in pursuit of the sincere and human.

 

The Norwegian Ibsen Company
“There’s something about hearing Ibsen’s lines spoken in his native tongue that lends them such music; you don’t need to be bilingual to enjoy the tune.” (The Stage, When We Dead Awaken, 2022)

The Norwegian Ibsen Company last performed at The Coronet Theatre in February 2022 with When We Dead Awaken, following their sell-out production of The Lady From The Sea in 2019.

Ibsen is the most performed dramatist in the world after William Shakespeare. However Norway did not have a professional Ibsen Company until ten years ago, when one of Norway’s leading actors, Kåre Conradi, founded the Norwegian Ibsen Company. The company’s goal is to communicate Ibsen’s stories with conviction and power, using the country’s leading artists to create a theatrical bridge with the rest of the world and Ibsen’s homeland.

“Working in partnership with The Coronet over the last 7 years has been a privilege that’s enabled us to make work that has revealed an insight and humour of Ibsen to both English and Norwegian audiences. We look forward to returning to our UK home for The Wild Duck” Kåre Conradi, Artistic Director, The Norwegian Ibsen Company

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