The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed Vladimir Rovinsky
One of Ibsen’s later plays, blending gripping realism and poetic symbolism told by an intimate ensemble of Twin Cities’ favorites.
Presented at the Southern Theater, 2017
Following our acclaimed staging of The Seagull that Cherry and Spoon called “funny, tragic, odd, and completely enchanting,” Theatre Novi Most presented another classic of the European theatrical canon with this complex drama of ambition and legacy. Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s stunning poetic language was adapted and directed by Theatre Novi Most co-founder Vladimir Rovinsky. The story followed master architect Halvard Solness and his wife Aline through an existential mid-life crisis involving past losses that still haunted and profound fear about the future. The challenges of a captivating young woman seemed to bring some answers, but as always, Ibsen kept us in suspense. The Master Builder is highly charged with secret desires, Freudian and Nietzschean motives and… there is that troll.
-
Pearce Bunting — Halvard Solness
Barbra Berlovitz — Aline
Shelby Richardson — Hilda
Alex Barreto Hathaway — The Troll
-
director — Vladimir Rovinsky
lighting designer — Heidi Eckwall
costume coordinator — Josephine Everett
stage manager — Deb Ervin
sound designer — Kalen Keir
Photos by Dan Norman.
The Master Builder was presented as part of The Southern Theater’s ARTshare program.
