Peer Gynt (1998 adaptation)

This article is about the David Henry Hwang and Stephan Muller adaptation. For other uses, see Peer Gynt.

Peer Gynt
Written by	David Henry Hwang Stephan Muller
Characters	Peer Gynt Ase Mads Moen Solveig Troll King and others
Date premiered	February 3, 1998
Place premiered	Trinity Repertory Company Providence
Original language	English
Subject	Selfishness; Love
Genre	Drama
Setting	Gynt family farm and many others

Peer Gynt is a 1998 theatrical adaptation of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's classic play Peer Gynt by American playwright David Henry Hwang and Swiss director Stephan Muller. Combining many contemporary references with a streamlined turn of the original story, it was commissioned by the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. It opened there on February 3, 1998.

The script is published by Playscripts, Inc.

References

"Peer Gynt".

v t e Works by David Henry Hwang
Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011) Kung Fu (2014)
Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010) Cain and Abel (2014)
Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire/The Monkey King (2001) Possession (2002) The Affair (2016)
Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988) The Voyage (1992) The Silver River (1997) Aida (2000) Flower Drum Song (2001) Ainadamar (2003) The Sound of a Voice (2003) Tarzan (2006) Alice in Wonderland (2007) The Fly (2008) Dream of the Red Chamber (2016) An American Soldier (2018) Soft Power (2018)

v t e Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1876)
Inspirations	Per Gynt Jo Gjende
Films	Peer Gynt (1915) Peer Gynt (1919) Peer Gynt (1934)
Stage	Peer Gynt (1938 Egk opera) Peer Gynt (1998 play)
Music	Peer Gynt (1875 incidental music) "In the Hall of the Mountain King" "Morning Mood" Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G. (1961) "Trying To Be Me" (2000)
Other	Bøyg

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