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    Pillars of Society
    Pillars of Society
    Pillars of Society
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    Pillars of Society

    Written by Henrik Ibsen

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a long-established family firm. Now he is planning his most ambitious project yet, backing a railway which will connect the town to the main line and open a fertile valley which he has been secretly buying up. Suddenly his past explodes on him with the arrival of Lona Hessel, the woman he once jilted, and Johan Tonnesen, who left town in disgrace fifteen years earlier. - Summary by Wikipedia and Elizabeth KlettKrap: Rob Board
    Aune: alanmapstone
    Rorlund: Todd
    Mrs. Rummel: Kathy Wright
    Mrs. Holt: Availle
    Mrs. Bernick: Beth Thomas
    Dina Dorf: Kristin Gjerløw
    Martha Bernick: Digs
    Hilmar Tonnesen: Algy Pug
    Olaf Bernick: Tricia G
    Mrs. Lynge: Lydia
    Karsten Bernick: Bruce Pirie
    Vigeland: Hamlet
    Rummel: Larry Wilson
    Sandstad: David Olson
    Lona Hessel: Elizabeth Klett
    Johan Tonnesen: mb
    Narrator: April Walters
    audio edited by Elizabeth Klett
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    Henrik Ibsen

    Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen’s first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.

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