WORLD THEATRE IBSEN
OHN GABRIEL BORKMAN, the latest play in the BBC World Theatre series, will be heard from 1YC, 2YC and 4YC on Wednesday, July 3, and from 3YC on Saturday, July 6. This play, Ibsen’s last but one, develops in dramatic form three of his most cherished beliefs-in the essential sinfulness of the denial of love, in the freedom of the individual to choose his own life, and in the conflict between fantasy and action inherent in every temperament. In John Gabriel (played by Stephen Murray) and his wife Gunhild (Beatrix Lehmann) Ibsen portrays the disastrous results of the failure to aresolve this conflict. Borkman, imagining himself a superman who must pioneer industrial developments in his native land, misappropriates trust funds and serves a prison sentence. For the following eight years he has isolated himself in the
manor house of. his sister-in-law, Ella Rentheim (Dorothy Holmes Gore), where he continues to dream, not repentent, but feeling like a Napoleon maimed in his first
battle. His wife, equally temoved from reality, dreams of her son rehabilitating the family name. Both have, in fact, cut themselves off from life before the play begins-when Erhart, the son (Denis Goacher), has to decide between the ties of family loyalties or duties and his need for a life of his own, Other parts in this production are taken by Beth Boyd, Lydia Sherwood, Betty Linton, and Jeffrey Segal. The producer was Mary Hope Allen.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 933, 28 June 1957, Page 17
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241WORLD THEATRE IBSEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 933, 28 June 1957, Page 17
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