The Wild Duck

Summary: 1952 BBC live studio production of Ibsen’s drama The Wild Duck, in Max Faber’s adaptation.
Theatre play: The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) [more information]
Play synopsis: The Wild Duck is a tragedy with comic episodes which is considered by many critics to be Ibsen’s masterpiece. It recounts the fatal effects of what Ibsen termed the ‘life lie’, the delusions man requires to flee a reality too difficult to bear. The action takes place over three days in a Norwegian town in the 1880s. Act I takes place in the home of Hkon Werle, a wealthy businessman and the rest of the play takes place in the apartment of photographer Hjalmar Ekdal and his family.
Production history: First published in 1884 and first performed in Bergen in 1885.
Date of transmission: Sunday 2 March 1952
Time: 8.301-10.20pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Director

Tatiana Lieven

Producer

Ian Atkins

Adapted for the Stage by

Max Faber

Playwright

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

Sets / Settings

James Bould

Cast

Title: Radio Times, 29 February 1952 (Magazine)
Linking notes: listing and photograph, p. 47; article by Lionel Hale, ‘Ibsen’s Fowling Piece of a Play’, p. 46

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