Ibsen’s dramatic texts focus the reader’s attention upon the protagonist’s enactment of self. These texts tend to position a central figure, the protagonist, between two other characters, each of whom represents a particular vision of the protagonist: who he is and how he should behave. Characteristically, these images of the protagonist’s self are intelligible in Oedipal terms. That is, the protagonist stands between a maternal and a paternal figure. Over the course of the action, the protagonist exchanges (of refuses to exchange) identification with one of these figures for identification with the other. For example, […]

Pillars of Society traces Karsten Bernick’s shift from a identification with a paternal figure to identification with a maternal figure, while Hjalmar Ekdal, the protagonist of The Wild Duck, does not make such an exchange. In this way, Ibsen’s texts stage the Oedipal crisis in a revised form.

Oliver W. Gerland

DIRECTOR: Bálint Botos
SCENOGRAPHY: Blanka-Alíz Bajkó
MUSIC: Magor Bocsárdi

CAST:
László Mátray, Ágnes Benedek, Márton Szőcs-Torma, Zsuzsa Gajzágó, Zsolt Fekete, Hajnalka Szalma, László Szakács, Zsuzsanna Vass, Dezső Derzsi, Gellért Pignitzky, Levente Nemes, József Kolcsár, Annamária D. Albu, Imola P. Magyarosi