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The Pretenders

Haakon, young and inspired, and Skule, seasoned but unsure, are two men of honor who both claim the right to Norway's crown.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 150 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Haakon, young and inspired, and Skule, seasoned but unsure, are two men of honor who both claim the right to Norway's crown. Among the shadows, manipulating events that stoke and stymy the dreams of both men, slides the wily Bishop Nicholas pursuing his own mysterious ends. Ibsen's turbulent tale diessects the timeless motives that the political and powerful must ever ask themselves -- do I do what I do for the greater good or for personal glory? 

This lean, swift-paced version of the classic play captures the poetic imagination and psychological intensity of this sweeping, yet intimate epic that explores the nature of power and personal ambition, the obligation of leadership and the search for national unity.
REVIEWS:

"Charles Edward Pogue has whittled Ibsen's brilliant but unwieldy work into a taut and richly producible format that retains the Shakespearean scope of the original."

 F. Kathleen Foley, LA Times

"Full of humor, passion, and mystery."

 F. Kathleen Foley, LA Times

"Pogue's intoxicating distillation restores Ibsen's neglected masterwork to its rightful place in the classical pantheon."

 F. Kathleen Foley, LA Times

"Pogue has already proven himself to be a keen adapter of classics and... he has resurrected and retooled Ibsen's least produced and most epic work."

 Lexington Herald-Leader

Characters

  • Casting: 8M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Expandable casting

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Haakon, young and inspired, and Skule, seasoned but unsure, are two men of honor who both claim the right to Norway's crown. Among the shadows, manipulating events that stoke and stymy the dreams of both men, slides the wily Bishop Nicholas pursuing his own mysterious ends. Ibsen's turbulent tale diessects the timeless motives that the political and powerful must ever ask themselves -- do I do what I do for the greater good or for personal glory? 

This lean, swift-paced version of the classic play captures the poetic imagination and psychological intensity of this sweeping, yet intimate epic that explores the nature of power and personal ambition, the obligation of leadership and the search for national unity.

$19.95

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