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
Peer Gynt of 2013, Dr. Cary Mazer, a theatre professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, produced a stage version of his Jewish-inspired adaptation, "Pinchas Vontz". The script was produced as a staged reading, with direction by Philadelphia theatre artist Ed Sobel. In 2018, the Liverpool Everyman Theatre staged a 'reimagining' of the play, written by Robert Farquhar and directed by Nick Bagnall, titled The Big I Am. The role of Peer Gynt at different stages of his life was played by three actors: Nathan McMullen, Liam Tobin, and Richard Bremmer. There have been a number of film adaptations including: Peer