O'Reilly Theatre, DublinWho is Peer Gynt? In Rough Magic theatre company's ambitious production of Ibsen's verse drama, he is a pyjama-clad patient in a psychiatric clinic, drifting between dreams and memories. As a framing device, the sanatorium usefully locates us in the realm of the unconscious mind, dissolving time to return to Peer's youth in the Norwegian countryside. Swilling liquor, he boasts of adventures, f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM on October 4, 2011