Avignon Festival 2025: the low-key takeoff of Thomas Ostermeier's "Wild Duck"
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Thomas Ostermeier has taken Ibsen's play, first performed in 1885, and brought its period and text up to date. Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Avignon Festival
Yet, by directing a magnificent cast of actors, Thomas Ostermeier updates and somewhat softens the despair of Henrik Ibsen's play.
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I subscribeDuring the first hour of the show, almost independently of the plot and the sober staging, the dazzling mastery of the actors captivates the spectator. The double mediation through which Ibsen's text reaches us – from Norwegian adapted into German then surtitled (and therefore summarized) in French – in no way undermines their authority, founded on a limitless palette of nuances in voice, gaze, movements, or electrifying statics. At the head of the Schaubühne in Berlin, director Thomas Ostermeier has taken Ibsen's play, first performed in 1885, to update its period and text, in order to "dust it off a little and modernize the language."
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