Peer Gynt (1998 adaptation)

Peer Gynt
Written by	David Henry Hwang and Stephan Muller
Characters	Peer Gynt Ase Mads Moen Solveig Troll King and others
Date premiered	February 3, 1998
Place premiered	Trinity Repertory Company Providence
Original language	English
Subject	Selfishness; Love
Genre	Drama
Setting	Gynt family farm and many others

Peer Gynt is a 1998 theatrical adaptation of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's classic play Peer Gynt by American playwright David Henry Hwang and Swiss director Stephan Muller. Combining many contemporary references with a streamlined turn of the original story, it was commissioned by the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. It opened there on February 3, 1998.

The script is published by Playscripts, Inc..^[1]

References

The works of David Henry Hwang

Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998, with Stephan Muller; from Ibsen) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004, from Sis) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011)

Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983, from Kawabata) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010)

Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985, with Kimball) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire (2001) Possession (2002, with Jones and LaBute, from Byatt)

Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988, with Glass and Sirlin) The Voyage (1992, with Glass) The Silver River (1997, with Sheng) Aida (2000, with Woolverton & Falls, John and Rice, from Verdi) Flower Drum Song (2001, with Rodgers and Hammerstein, from Fields, Hammerstein, and Lee) Ainadamar (2003, with Golijov) The Sound of a Voice (2004, with Glass) Tarzan (2006, with Collins, from Burroughs) Alice in Wonderland (2007, with Chin, from Carroll) The Fly (2008, with Shore)