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The Lady from the Sea
by Kathryn Osenlund
| How a woman is gradually transformed until she is like her husband.
--Marriage defined by Lyngstrand --- |
In Philadelphia Premiere at the Lantern Theater Company is a historically interesting, lesser work from the pen of the mighty Henrik Ibsen. The Lady from the Sea, set in a remote town in Norway amid the wilds of the fjords and the sea, is perhaps more poetic and atmospheric than his two great plays that treat the constrained social position of women.
It was written in 1888, thirteen years after the shocking A Doll's House, and less than two years before Hedda Gabler. These plays share theme