Peer Gynt

Don’t miss the Chicago premiere of Peer Gynt, a zany, high-energy translation by prolific poet Robert Bly of this rarely-produced Henrik Ibsen classic. Robert Bly is a National Book Award-winner and Poet Laureate of Minnesota, his home state.

In Bly’s translation, the wild, globe-trotting adventurer Peer Gynt, unencumbered by morals or a sense of responsibility, takes a mythic journey envisioned as that of America itself, from scrappy trickster to imperial power and beyond. Featuring live music and rustic settings reminiscent of 19th and 20th century Americana, Peer embarks on a 150-year whirlwind tour of the American psyche.