Shake, Rattle, and Troll: TNN’s Peer Gynt Stuns the Barbican
After wowing Nice, Irina Brook’s rock & roll version of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is making cool Londoners swoon before it’s back at the TNN next week. Ever since the 2014/15 theatrical season started, Nice has been buzzing with this year’s defining event: Peer Gynt, the first play at the Théâtre National de Nice under Irina Brook’s direction. And it has been […]
Peer Gynt, Barbican, London: An unforgettable take on Ibsen with a soundtrack by Iggy Pop
The Theatre National de Nice bring their fiercely fresh English language adaptation of Peer Gynt to London Peer Gynt reinvented as a preening, booze-fuelled stadium rock god in existential free-fall? Yes, that’s what Ibsen’s fantasizing, compulsively deceptive loon of hero becomes, in his pot-bellied, narcissistic middle age, in Irina Brook’s exhilaratingly bold and thematically penetrating […]
Peer Gynt
When I was 18, I was living a rock and roll dream in New York. I was a waitress in a café and I was studying drama. I was meeting musicians like Iggy Pop and David Bowie. I had a revelation when I read Peer Gynt for the very first time: I was captivated by […]