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Wild Duck, The

Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost?

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.

Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, Norway.

This English translation by Stephen Mulrine is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with a full introduction.

Premiere Production: Original version: Bergen, Norway, 1885.
  • Casting: 9M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras

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Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.

Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, Norway.

This English translation by Stephen Mulrine is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with a full introduction.

$24.95