Before Ibsen was, well, Ibsen, he had a successful career as a failed playwright. Producing works on a spectrum between unremarkable and outright bad, he muddled his way through to his late 30s when the publication of Brand derailed what might otherwise have been a spectacularly mediocre life's work. With the change in fortunes came a change in tone " a welcome and necessary one if the leaden comedy of Ibsen's early …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM on July 15, 2012