Asking Ibsen’s questions to a new generation The Humble Theatre Company creates a daring new intermedia staging of one of his greatest works.
Presented with a unique focus on the breaking of innocence and the manipulation of power, this modern staging - set in twenty-first century England (where in 2008 there were more than 20,000 recorded sex offenses against children) - creates a play that truly resonates just as much today as it did when Ibsen first drew the plans for it.
Originally inspired by The Builder’s Association’s 1994 American production, the incorporation of new media seeks to spark and encourage the capacity for active critical thinking. As our children grow up in a world where it is so easy to be accessed by abusers through the internet, there are questions to be raised about virtual fantasy and the lasting effects it will bring.
Follow Hilde’s journey and character as the production gives particular attention to the psychological effect of being kissed and promised the world by a man of power at the age of 12, and subsequently being left alone and forgotten.
Any profits from this production will go to the NSPCC
