Peter Gynt review " David Hare brings modern madness to Ibsen's epic
Olivier, LondonHare updates Ibsen's 1867 dramatic poem with wit and ingenuity, resulting in a sharp satire on contemporary mores This play is credited as "by David Hare after Henrik Ibsen". What that means, in practice, is that Hare sticks faithfully to the structure of Ibsen's 1867 dramatic poem while radically updating the content. The result is a sharp satire on contemporary mores that yields an outstanding perfo…