21/03/2026
The Norwegian Ibsen Company is of course entirely correct, and we are proud to be one of the many who are producing Ibsen’s plays today! If you’re in Oslo, why not come join us and see for yourself why Ibsen is one of the most successful cultural exports Norway has to offer! Oslo English Players is performing Hedda Gabler at Frogner Hovedgård 27.3 - 29.3 in English. Follow the link to get your tickets!
https://osloenglishplayers.ticketco.events/no/nb?version=m
On Henrik Ibsen’s birthday today, we wish not only to celebrate the most performed playwright in the world after William Shakespeare. We also wish to honour a man who was introverted and inward-looking, who played with puppet theatre as a child, only to have other children grow jealous and cut the strings of his puppets.
We wish to honour a shy theatre director who, at the beginning of his career in Bergen, sat hidden beneath a hat at the back of the theatre. A man who believed that actors and directors must revise and revise the text until it finally falls naturally into place on stage. A writer who believed that although a play may have a clear ending, everything could turn out entirely differently tomorrow.
A man who fought for the rights of the individual. And when he was praised as someone who wrote so remarkably about women’s rights, he replied: I do not write about women’s rights, but about human rights.
A man whose work is performed all over the world because he is not only of his time, but above all timeless — because he reveals the existential core of what it means to be human.❤️
Happy birthday! 🎂
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