New Tricks for an Old Dog: Ibsen from Berlin's Schaubühne

One evening in early November, the BAM Harvey Theater in New York City resounded to an electric guitar, a few American pop-rock songs including Bowie's "Changes," the splat of paint-filled balloons hurled against the walls of the set and the words of an incendiary political text published recently in France. For a while, voices from the audience were heard as well, challenging one of the characters on stage or supporting another. There was even a trained dog. It may sound like a crazy anarchist ...