Judgement Day

Mike Poulton's "Judgement day" is adapted from "When We Dead Awaken, the last play Ibsen wrote before his death. First staged in 1899, it is rarely performed, yet is one of his most extraordinary and deeply personal works. Set within a mythical Nordic landscape, the play offers an explicit and merciless portrait of Ibsen as an ageing artist: restless with his art, his homeland and his married life. Whilst holidaying with his young wife, the sculptor Rubek encounters his muse: a woman that he loved and left a lifetime ago. Over a series of heated encounters, the entire scroll of Rubek's life is unrolled in Ibsen's final - and most autobiographical - exploration of what it means to love and be loved. This new adaptation was first performed at The Print Room in north London, November 2011.

ISBN 1848422415   DEWEY edition DC23 ISBN13 9781848422414 (What's this?)   Pages 64 Publisher Nick Hern Books   Published in London Imprint Nick Hern Books   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 129 Publication date 15 Nov 2011   Academic level General DEWEY 808.82

'Poulton is the adapter of the moment' - Observer 'essential for anyone interested in Ibsen's progress, and also decline' - Daily Telegraph 'The dialogue is crammed with evocations of pain and terror, rendered with startling vividness in Poulton's text' - The Times 'Credit to writer Mike Poulton whose new version of the play gives human scale to a forbidding expedition' - Daily Mail

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