Emilia Galotti - from light comedy to dark tragedy
The play itself is an enigma, as Edward Dvoretzky entitled his study of the play's countless interpretations in 1963. The beauty of the...
Who was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and...
The thread of the three
After having read Holly's great blog post, I, too, wanted to reflect on the three projects we have collaborated on. It has been a...
The Italian Renaissance
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's tragedy, the German Hamlet, will hopefully be coming back to haunt a theatre near you soon. We hope to see...
The tragic immediacy of Margit
The Ottisdotter journey so far feels both ethereal and visceral: an ivy-laden path through a triad of lost loves, each wrought with its...
The Feast at Solhaug
The Feast at Solhaug is to be the last of Henrik Ibsen’s plays to receive its world première in English. Written 160 years ago, the...