Peer Gynt at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In 1981, Houston Ballet presented "Peer Gynt" as adapted by Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, OBE. In 1989, John Neumeier created a ballet "freely based on Ibsen's play", for which Alfred Schnittke composed the score. In 1998, the Trinity Repertory Company of Providence, Rhode Island commissioned David Henry Hwang and Swiss director Stephan Muller to do an adaptation of "Peer Gynt". In 1998, playwright Romulus Linney directed his adaptation of the play, entitled "Gint", at the Theatre for the New City in New York. This adaptation moved the play's action to 20th-century Appalachia and California.
The Master Builder spectators standing aghast at the sight, only Hilda comes forward as if in silent triumph. She waves her shawl and cries out with wild intensity. “My—my Master Builder!” The search for a meaning, or interpretation has engaged and often bewildered audiences and critics all over the world. It is seen as an exploration of the author’s autobiographical history, or of issues dealing with youth versus maturity, or of issues of psychology, and other possible interpretations. Halvard Solness, the master builder, has become the most successful builder in his home town by a fortunate series of coincidences for him which were