The Wild Duck

Wild Duck, The (Vildanden)

    Author: Henrik Ibsen

    First Performance: 1885, Bergen

    Published: 1884

    First English Translation: 1890

    Genre: Drama in 5 acts; Norwegian prose

    Setting: Werle's and Ekdal's homes, Norway, 1880s

    Cast: 12m, 3f, extras

Hjalmar Ekdal has a small photographic studio, bought for him by the rich merchant Werle, whose housekeeper Gina Hjalmar has married. An old friend, Werle's son Gregers, returns home and soon suspects that his father was involved in the crime that ruined Hjalmar's family and that Gina had been his father's mistress. Gregers resolves to tell Hjalmar the truth about his situation, so that Hjalmar, an indolent character who claims to be working on a spurious invention but prefers to hunt rabbits in a little wood he has created in the loft, will no...

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