REVITALIZATION OF IBSEN’S “PEER GYNT” IN OSLO TODAY: INTERTEXTUALITY IN A SCENE

Text topic: Cultures of Rhythms and Spectacle

Text author: Софија Тодић

The text explores possibilities of revitalization and translation of Henrik Ibsen’s play into an open form of performance. On the example of Peer Gynt, first perfomed on September 17, 2009 at the Oslo Nye Centralteater, common grounds of the 19th century drama and contemporary cultural context are considered. Ibsen’s drama Peer Gynt, directed by Svein Sturla Hungnes is, according to critics, staged as ”a modern, urban version”. The analysis singles out the key intertextual elements of a new reading and performing Ibsen in the context of media culture. Relying on Roland Barthes’s theoretic views from the essay “The Death of the Author”, our text focuses on stage/performance and viewer/participant communication.