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
Greta Gynt Is a Woman" (1957) and the lead in "Morning Call" (1957), and "The Crowning Touch" (1959). Gynt had a support role in "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons" (1959). Her last film was a Columbia Pictures release, "The Runaway" 1963 (released 1966) in which she played the lead. Reportedly, she adopted the name Gynt after she heard a pianist playing Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" in a hotel in London in the late 1930s. In her 1938 radio interview with NRK she states her husband exclaimed "What's this?" and her name was born. Gynt was married four times. Her last husband was Frederick