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Templeton, Joan
Ibsen news and comment, 01/2018, Volume: 38Journal Article
...the contrast between the realism of the U.S. production and the post-realism of the European one, including an ice rink and a tsunami-the fruit, of course, of lavish state subsidies-is startling. The falling price of crude oil caused substantial cuts in the National Theatre's budget and reduced the Ibsen Festival, held biennially in Oslo, from three weeks to twelve days. Runi Sveen, the National Theatre's Artistic Director, said that given this constraint, the Board decided to concentrate on non-Norwegian directors-to have "the other eye" on Ibsen.
