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Our own Louise Calf plays the part of Anne in St John’s Night – a play by Henrik Ibsen.
A fairy-tale comedy from one of the world’s greatest playwrights, St John’s Night receives its UK premiere at the award-winning Jermyn Street Theatre directed by Anthony Biggs. Ibsen’s first publicly performed play, commissioned in 1851 by the eccentric violinist Ole Bull for the newly-established National Theatre in Bergen, is an enchanting tale of mischievous goblins, mismatched lovers and secret inheritances; loosely based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Exploring themes of cultural inheritance, nationalism and the supernatural that appear more clearly defined in Ibsen’s later realist cycle, St John’s Night is a riotous and satirical comedy from a writer often associated with Nordic gloom.