Thomas Ostermeier Before the Avignon Festival: "What Interests Me in the Wild Duck Is the Ambiguity of the Truth"

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Ten years after his last visit to Avignon, the director of the Schaubühne presents his version of the play of Ibsen, adapted to our time but faithful to the rhythms and suspense dear to the Norwegian playwright. "Libé" attended the rehearsals in Berlin.

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As the Wild Duck gets up at the festival after a long absence, the director of the Berlin Schaubühne is resuming a fruitful dialogue with the great Norwegian playwright over the past two decades.

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The German director opens the Avignon Festival with a modern adaptation of the play by Ibsen, questioning our relationship to family lies and secrets. Thomas Ostermeier, a major figure in the European theatre scene, proposes a bold rereading of the classic by Henrik Ibsen at the opening of the Avignon Festival. Thirteen years after his resounding "Enemy of the [...] Article Ostermeier revisits "The Wild Duck": a disturbing reflection on the trut…

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Any truth is not good to say in the Ekdals. From the father who thinks he is an inventor of genius to the aiul who lives in his memories, life is a lie in this family in appearance without stories, until the girl who suffers from a mysterious eye disease... It is enough from the arrival of Gregers to make fly in the bursts of illusion. By digging unfailing secrets, Gregers, idealist with a love of truth, is he not likely to shake the fragile bal…