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Rosmersholm, an old seigniorial house in the outskirts of a small town near a fjord in western Norway, is the setting for this play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, back in 1886. In this abode lives Johannes Rosmer, who renounced his work as a parish priest following the suicide of his wife Beata. But his growing liberal ideals make him a prime target for the suspicion of community notables who also disapprove of the presence, in his house, of a younger woman, Rebecca West, old companion of his late wife. As the relationship between Rosmer and Rebecca deepens and the isolation of the new couple grows ever more, social moral pressures increasingly throw them, inexorably, towards their ultimate fate: death.
Rosmersholm is a play about social and political change in which the traditionally dominating classes abandon the right to impose their ideals onto the rest of society.
Rosmersholm, an old seigniorial house in the outskirts of a small town near a fjord in western Norway, is the setting for this play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, back in 1886. In this abode lives Johannes Rosmer, who renounced his work as a parish priest following the suicide of his wife Beata. But his growing liberal ideals make him a prime target for the suspicion of community notables who also disapprove of the presence, in his house, of a younger woman, Rebecca West, old companion of his late wife. As the relationship between Rosmer and Rebecca deepens and the isolation of the new couple grows ever more, social moral pressures increasingly throw them, inexorably, towards their ultimate fate: death.
Rosmersholm is a play about social and political change in which the traditionally dominating classes abandon the right to impose their ideals onto the rest of society.
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Stage Direction Gonçalo Waddington With Gonçalo Waddington, Carla Maciel, Pedro Lacerda, Peter Michael, Mónica Garnel and Tiago RodriguesSets Fernando Ribeiro Costumes Carla Maciel Lighting Design José Álvaro Correia Video Gonçalo Waddington and Mário CostaProduction CCB and Take It EasyWith the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Photo Credit José Pedro Sousa / Tankantion
Photo Credit José Pedro Sousa / Tankantion