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Greed is Good
BAM presents Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman, starring Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, Fiona Shaw.
Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan (Photo: Ros Kavanagh)
It’s a cold winter night in the Borkman house. John Gabriel Borkman has served five years in prison that brought about the collapse of the bank he worked as a bank manager and the savings of many people in the community. For the last three years, he has been locked in the upstairs apartment of the house leased to his disgraced family plotting how to get back on top.
As he paces and plots alone, his long-suffering wife concocts her own plans to restore the family’s reputation.
Opening next week at BAM, three of the theater world’s leading luminaries—Tony Award winner Lindsay Duncan (Private Lives), two-time Tony Award nominee Alan Rickman (actor: Private Lives; director: Creditors, 2010 Spring Season) and Tony Award nominee Fiona Shaw (Medea, 2002 Next Wave; Happy Days, 2008 Spring Season)—join their considerable dramatic forces in a new version of the Ibsen’s 1896 play by award-winning Irish poet and playwright Frank McGuinness.
See ticket info here.