Peer Gynt House. In 2006, as part of the Norwegian Ibsen anniversary festival, "Peer Gynt" was set at the foot of the Great Sphinx of Giza near Cairo, Egypt (an important location in the original play). The director was Bentein Baardson. The performance was the centre of some controversy, with some critics seeing it as a display of colonialist attitudes. In January 2008 the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis debuted a new translation of "Peer Gynt" by the poet Robert Bly. Bly learned Norwegian from his grandparents while growing up in rural Minnesota, and later during several years of travel in Norway. This
Two River Theater Cookery, Peer Gynt, The House of Blue Leaves" 2000/2001 "Arms and the Man, La Bệte, American Buffalo, The Heiress" 1999/2000 "Blood Wedding, Uncle Vanya, The Fantasticks, Light Up the Sky" 1998/1999 "The Real Thing, Thieves’ Carnival, Hedda Gabler, Noises Off" 1997/1998 "The Dining Room, The Glass Menagerie, Machinal, The Importance of Being Earnest" 1996/1997 "A View from the Bridge, Reckless, Betrayal, Blithe Spirit" 1995/1996 "Nora, The Illusion, The Curse of the Starving Class, All in the Timing" 1994/1995 "The Cocktail Hour, The Heidi Chronicles, Misalliance" "ReEntry" (January 2009), "Orestes" (March 2010), "Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England" (October 2011), "