The Wild Duck

Henrik isen

The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck (1884) (original Norwegian title: Vildanden) is by many considered Ibsen's finest
work, and it is certainly the most complex. It tells the story of Gregers Werle, a young man who
returns to his hometown after an extended exile and is reunited with his boyhood friend Hjalmar
Ekdal. Over the course of the play, the many secrets that lie behind the Ekdals' apparently happy
home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the "Summons of the
Ideal". Among these truths: Gregers' father impregnated his servant Gina, then married her off to
Hjalmar to legitimize the child. Another man has been disgraced and imprisoned for a crime the
elder Werle committed. Furthermore, while Hjalmar spends his days working on a wholly imaginary
"invention", his wife is earning the household income.

. Total running time: 3:23:20

Henrik Ibsen
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Narrator: Kristingj

WERLE, a merchant, manufacturer, etc.: Algy Pug

GREGERS WERLE, his son: David Goldfarb

OLD EKDAL: Lewis

HIALMAR EKDAL, his son, a photographer: Marty Kris

GINA EKDAL, Hjalmar's wife: Helen Falconer

HEDVIG, their daughter, a girl of fourteen: ChyAnne Donnell

MRS. SORBY, Werle's housekeeper: Carol Box

RELLING, a doctor & A SHORT-SIGHTED GENTLEMAN: Lars Rolander
MOLYVIK, student of theology & ANOTHER WAITER: David Lawrence
GRABERG, Werle's bookkeeper: Availle

PETTERSEN, Werle's servant: DublinGothic

JENSEN, a hired waiter: Max Korlinge

A FLABBY GENTLEMAN: Leonard Wilson

A THIN-HAIRED GENTLEMAN: Martin Geeson

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The Wild Duck
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