The Kansas City Repertory Theatre's production of
Peer Gynt makes strikingly clear why Ibsen is considered "the father of modern theater," and perhaps the greatest playwright since Shakespeare. Variously a fairy tale, a pilgrim's progress, a recurring nightmare, a prodigal's return, an Everyman story, and a raw autobiography of Ibsen himself, the play is streaked through with inventiveness and fantasy but also grounded in universal human questions. Its issues are as current and relevant as, say, a Judd Apatow movie (will the eternal man-child ever grow up, and at what cost?), and its structure and staging — 144 years after its writing — still feel avant-garde.
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