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Ibsen in a bubble - Boermans' poignantly austere Solness

A girl stands waving and around her a rain of soap bubbles descends, so many that it almost looks like the girl is taking off. She stands swaying and her ecstasy and tears of joy slowly turn to deep despair and disbelief. What she sees cannot, cannot be true, because it destroys everything she is - into what she has made herself.

Theu Boermans directs Henrik Ibsen's Solness at the Nationale Toneel. Until summer in flat-floor theatres, in larger venues in the new season. 'Bo...

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Frans van Hilten

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A girl stands waving and around her a rain of soap bubbles descends, so many that it almost looks like the girl is taking off. She stands swaying and her ecstasy and tears of joy slowly turn to deep despair and disbelief. What she sees cannot, cannot be true, because it destroys everything she is - into what she has made herself.

Theu Boermans directs Henrik Ibsen's Solness at the Nationale Toneel. Until summer in flat-floor theatres, in larger venues in the new season. 'Bo...

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