Just saw Ibsen’s The Master Builder on a D. Trump syllabus because of the apparent parallels an am most intrigued because I’ve never read or seen it.

It is in the public domain and is available via multiple sources online. e.g. http://www.archive.org/stream/themasterbuilder04070gut/mbldr10.txt ; http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Master-Builder1.html ; http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4070/4070-h/4070-h.htm

The work could probably use some modernization in order to be fully accessible to a contemporary lay audience. And without doing extensive research, I’ve already found info on a 2014 Jonathan Demme film of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s film adaptation. It’s available via the Criterion Collection.

Even without having read it, I’m thinking it might be fun to deconstruct it and put it back together again in a highly visual stage structure, maybe with some improv and/or genre or media fusion under a variation on the title.

If you have thoughts, I’d love to hear them.#homework

And in the meantime, it’s on the CPF list of potential projects which I will post when it becomes legitimately long enough to resemble a list. 😉

-alicia