Pillars of Society

Written by Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by LibriVox Community

Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a long-established family firm. Now he is planning his most ambitious project yet, backing a railway which will connect the town to the main line and open a fertile valley which he has been secretly buying up. Suddenly his past explodes on him with the arrival of Lona Hessel, the woman he once jilted, and Johan Tonnesen, who left town in disgrace fifteen years earlier. - Summary by Wikipedia and Elizabeth KlettKrap: Rob Board
Aune: alanmapstone
Rorlund: Todd
Mrs. Rummel: Kathy Wright
Mrs. Holt: Availle
Mrs. Bernick: Beth Thomas
Dina Dorf: Kristin Gjerløw
Martha Bernick: Digs
Hilmar Tonnesen: Algy Pug
Olaf Bernick: Tricia G
Mrs. Lynge: Lydia
Karsten Bernick: Bruce Pirie
Vigeland: Hamlet
Rummel: Larry Wilson
Sandstad: David Olson
Lona Hessel: Elizabeth Klett
Johan Tonnesen: mb
Narrator: April Walters
audio edited by Elizabeth Klett

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright who thrived during the late nineteenth century. He began his professional career at age 15 as a pharmacist’s apprentice. He would spend his free time writing plays, publishing his first work Catilina in 1850, followed by The Burial Mound that same year. He eventually earned a position as a theatre director and began producing his own material. Ibsen’s prolific catalogue is noted for depicting modern and real topics. His major titles include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler.