When We Dead Awaken

By: Ibsen, Henrik

Ibsen's last work concludes the series of autobiographical dramas begun with The Master Builder which deal with the aging rebel, despairing of life and racked with guilt, who experiences an ambiguous victory at the moment of death. Plays for Performance Series.An open, park-like place with a fountain, groups of fine old trees, and shrubbery. To the left, a little pavilion almost covered with ivy and Virginia creeper. A table and chair outside it. At the back a view over the fjord, right out to sea, with headlands and small islands in the distance. It is a calm, warm and sunny summer morning. PROFESSOR RUBEK and MRS. MAIA RUBEK are sitting in basket chairs beside a covered table on the lawn outside the hotel, having just breakfasted. They have champagne and seltzer water on the table, and each has a newspaper. PROFESSOR RUBEK is an elderly man of distinguished appearance, wearing a black velvet jacket, and otherwise in light summer attire. MAIA is quite young, with a vivacious expression and lively, mocking eyes, yet with a suggestion of fatigue. She wears an elegant travelling dress.MAIA. Sits for some time as though waiting for the PROFESSOR to say something, then lets her paper drop with a deep sigh.] Oh dear, dear, dear- PROFESSOR RUBEK. Looks up from his paper.] Well, Maia? What is the matter with you?MAIA.Just listen how silent it is here.PROFESSOR RUBEK. Smiles indulgently.] And you can hear that?MAIA.What?PROFESSOR RUBEK.The silence?MAIA.Yes, indeed I can.PROFESSOR RUBEK.Well, perhaps you are right, mein Kind. One can really hear the silence.MAIA.Heaven knows you can-when it's so absolutely overpowering as it is here-PROFESSOR RUBEK.Here at the Baths, you mean?MAIA.Wherever you go at home here, it seems to me. Of course there was noise and bustle enough in the town. But I don't know how it is-even the noise and bustle seemed to have something dead about it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086BC11XY
• ISBN13: 9798628919392
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"