John Gabriel Borkman at Wasa Theatre

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The year is 1896. After 25 years in voluntary exile returning writer Henrik Ibsen in Norway and writes his penultimate play John Gabriel Borkman, his biggest success since A Doll's House (1879).

When Henrik Ibsen was 15 years old lost his father merchant Knut Ibsen all his wealth in an economic downturn. In the play, John Gabriel Borkman, Ibsen weaves together events from his own life with a true story of an officer who was convicted of fraud and locked himself in his house in the 1850s Christiania.

The year is 2014. After playing off the village's money and served a prison term returns banker John Gabriel Borkman at the crime scene. He locks himself in the now defunct savings bank in the Gulf of Bothnia countryside. He feels that everyone is against him: family, friends, throughout the small community. He feels no guilt. He regrets nothing. In fact, he would do it all again. If you would just let him do it. Then he would be vindicated.