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Title: The Master Builder
Condition: New
Author: David Hare, Henrik Ibsen
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0571330819
EAN: 9780571330812
ISBN: 9780571330812
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Language & Reference, Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 04/02/2016
Description:

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door.

The master builder Halvard Solness has a fear of falling. A self-made man, without professional qualifications, he has achieved domination in the town but he's increasingly frightened of being displaced by the young. A woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have known Solness ten years previously, and telling him of a promise he made to her when she thirteen.

David Hare has written a new adaptation of one of Henrik Ibsen's most complex autobiographical masterpieces - a mesmeric exploration of control, power, lust and death, which builds to a vertiginous climax.

The Master Builder premiered in this English version at The Old Vic, London, in January 2016.

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