Peer Gynt at Loeb Drama Center

Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt is a fairy tale told in verse, blending poetry with social satire and realism with the surreal. Peer Gynt is the son of an impoverished farmer. Having disgraced himself at a local wedding by running away with the bride, he wanders in exile, pursuing a number of occupations from missionary to slave-trader to prophet and encountering trolls, sphinxes Bedouin tribesman and a variety of fanciful characters. Director Allegra Caldera's interpretation of this seldom-performed Ibsen classic plays with puppet-show imagery to create a wild and fanciful epic.