Today comes the news that
Malvolio Claxendell is collaborating with Yevgeny Huxtable by writing the
libretto for his colleague's opera based on Ibsen's newly discovered comedy
'The Wild Enemy of Count Arthur Strong, Masterbuilder'. The musical extravaganza
promoted by the Director of Global Brickworks, Lucien Jung, is expected to be
the centrepiece of this year's Seven Dials Festival. Ibsen wrote the play when
his wife, Suzannah Thoresen, suffered
exogenous depression after losing twenty kroner at Valhalla Bingo. To cheer her
up he then performed the piece with a specially constructed puppet theatre. In
the 1960s Ingmar Bergman adapted it for the big screen, turning it into a
searing existential tragedy on the theme of death, misdirected metempsychosis
and eternal virginity.
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