In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her " outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the last decades.

* 2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award, presented by Queen Sonja of Norway in Egypt on the occasion of the Ibsen Year

* 2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

It was felt by Ibsen's German agent that the original ending would not play well in German theatres ; therefore, for the play's German debut, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending for it to be considered acceptable.

Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").

He often used a historical background for his plays-among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw.

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

* Centre for Ibsen Studies

He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, for a successful Peer Gynt ( by Henrik Ibsen ).

Although a strong contributor to early Norwegian romanticism, Henrik Ibsen is perhaps best known as an influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the popularity of modern realistic drama in Europe, with plays like The Wild Duck and A Doll's House.

Following several successful revivals ( including Stephen Daldry's 1992 production for the National Theatre ), the play was “ rediscovered ” and hailed as a damning social critique of capitalism and middle-class hypocrisy in the manner of the social realist dramas of Shaw and Ibsen.

Their villa was often turned into a stage for little plays, directed by Murnau, who already read books of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays at the age of 12.

During the years 1890 – 1893 when he was most engaged with the theatre, James wrote a good deal of theatrical criticism and assisted Elizabeth Robins and others in translating and producing Henrik Ibsen for the first time on the London stage.

As she matured, she demonstrated a strong affinity for the plays of Henrik Ibsen, as Irene in When We Dead Awaken ( Cambridge, 1968 ), as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts ( Edinburgh, 1972 ), Aase in Peer Gynt ( BBC, 1972 ) and as Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman ( Old Vic, 1975 ), in which she appeared with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft.

Vigeland, considered the most talented Norwegian sculptor, received numerous commissions for statues and busts celebrating renowned compatriots like Henrik Ibsen and Niels Henrik Abel.

The more conservative of the two language transitions was advanced by the work of writers like Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, schoolmaster and agitator for language reform Knud Knudsen, and Knudsen's famous disciple, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, as well as a more cautious Norwegianisation by Henrik Ibsen.

In 1977, he released the Animal Justice EP, notable particularly for the epic " Hedda Gabler ", based very loosely on the Ibsen play.

Ibsen got the idea for this book from a local story.

Teater Ibsen is the city theatre, and is still used for small productions.

* Henrik Ibsen leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.

The new venture focused on the plays of George Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen, including the latter's The Vikings in 1903, with Terry as the warlike Hiordis, a misjudged role for her.

The family is also known for its relation to playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Ibsen named the character Hedvig in The Wild Duck for his grandmother Hedvig Altenburg née Paus.

Although Ibsen died in 2008, her son Michael gave a mouth-swab sample to the research team on 24 August 2012.

* Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Anthony Page ( 2008 )

* February 24 – Premiere of first stage production of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Oslo ( then called Christiania ), Norway

* At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catilina: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611 ; Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian ' father of modern drama ' Henrik Ibsen, written in 1850.

His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

Some of his greatest successes include opening his own symbolist theatre, producing the first staging of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), and introducing French theatregoers to playwrights such as Ibsen and Strindberg.

It appears on the first page of the Køng churchbook ( parish register ) in 1687 at the baptism of Jeppe, son of Simon Ibsen of Glamsberg.

* Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ), playwright, wrote his first drama, Catalina in Grimstad

Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

In 1953, Ibsen set up what became the world's first Medical / Surgical ICU in a converted student nurse classroom in Kommunehospitalet ( The Municipal Hospital ) in Copenhagen, and provided one of the first accounts of the management of tetanus with muscle relaxants and controlled ventilation.

Historian, genealogist and Ibsen biographer Halvdan Koht suggested it could be a patronymic based on the first name Paul.

In 1883, the year she obtained American citizenship, she produced Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in Louisville, Kentucky, the first Ibsen play staged in the United States.

Yiddish New York theatergoers were familiar with the plays of Ibsen, Tolstoy, and even Shaw long before these works played on Broadway, and the high calibre of Yiddish language acting became clear as Yiddish actors began to cross over to Broadway, first with Jacob Adler's tour de force performance as Shylock in a 1903 production of The Merchant of Venice, but also with performers such as Bertha Kalich, who moved back and forth between the city's leading Yiddish-language and English-language stages.

As he waited for the first MLS season in 1996, Ibsen signed with the Tampa Bay Terror of the National Professional Soccer League for the 1995-1996 season.

That Ibsen was offering a parable was noted in a review of the first London staging, when the translator, Edmund Gosse, was asked to explain the meaning of the work.

The Master Builder was the first work Ibsen wrote upon his return to Norway from Europe in July 1891.

Ibsen adopted a contemporary setting ( for the first time since his St. John's Night of 1853 ) and a rhymed verse form for the play.

Henrik Ibsen wrote a poem in the hall's honor, and poet Henrik Wergeland first used the name Haakons hall in one of his poems.

He appeared for the first time on TV when he was 10 years in an American Playhouse adaptation of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, which starred his father James Daly.