The Master Builder

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Master Builder
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Henrik Ibsen
By (author) David Hare
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780571330812
ClassificationsDewey:839.8226
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 4 February 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door. The master builder Halvard Solness has a fear of falling. A self-made man, without professional qualifications, he has achieved domination in the town but he's increasingly frightened of being displaced by the young. A woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have known Solness ten years previously, and telling him of a promise he made to her when she was thirteen. David Hare has written a new adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsen's most complex autobiographical masterpieces - a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death, which builds to a vertiginous climax. The Master Builder premiered in this English version at The Old Vic, London, in January 2016.

Author Biography

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. Sir David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.