Red Bull Theater's Revelation Readings to Continue with David Auburn's THE WILD DUCK

Red Bull Theater's Revelation Reading of David Auburn's brand new version of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck is an exciting opportunity to hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Proof tackle one of Ibsen's most fascinating plays - a thrilling combination of realism, symbolism, and romance.

An idealistic son exposes his family's corruption, in the world premiere of a new version by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn. Hjalmar Ekdal's father was rich until scandal cast the family into poverty. Now he lives in a small, shabby home with his senile father, his wife Gina and his daughter Hedvig. And a duck. And there's about to be a new member of the household. Although based almost entirely on self-deception and illusion, the Ekdal home is a happy one - but Gregers Werle has just returned to town with some unfinished business that could shatter the little world Hjalmar has built around himself. This fascinating combination of realism, symbolism, and romance is a masterful family drama.

Red Bull Theater's OBIE Award-Winning Revelation Readings series provides a unique opportunity to hear new and rarely-produced classic plays performed by many of the finest actors in New York. Tonight, see Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck in an all-new version by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn.
Wendy C. Goldberg directs a cast that features Arthur Bartow, Rebecca Brooksher, Kieran Campion, Helen Cespedes, Jon DeVries, Jamie Horton, Stephen Kunken, Caitlin O'Connell, Anna Reichert, and Harris Yulin.

One Night Only - November 17th at 7:30 pm at Playwrights Horizons, Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

David Auburn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and Drama Desk award for his play Proof. Other plays include Lost Lake, currently on Broadway, The Columnist, The New York Idea, An Upset and Amateurs, The Journals of Mihail Sebastian and Skyscraper. Films include The Girl in the Park (writer/director) and The Lake House. His work has been published in Harper's, New England Review, and Guilt and Pleasure; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. Last year he gave the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters at Oxford's Rothermere American Institute. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.

Henrik Ibsen is the world's most frequently performed dramatist after William Shakespeare. Born in Skien on March 20, 1828, Ibsen's childhood was marked with the sudden misfortune of his father's bankruptcy and his family's forced retreat to their small summer home in Venstøp. Financial difficulty and dark family secrets became a common theme in his writing. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder, and although most of his plays are set in Norway-often in places reminiscent of Skien-Ibsen lived for 27 years in Italy and Germany, and rarely visited Norway during his most productive years. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European tradition. Richard Hornby describes him as "a profound poetic dramatist-the best since Shakespeare." He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre.

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