Productions
The initial evenings stage production saw loud applause and glowing reviews by critics in the papers. However by the second performance, Conservatives were saying it was an attack on their party, and Liberals were saying it was an attack on their party. When both sides showed up for the second performance, a loud ruckus forced the manager to plead for calm and there were continual interruptions. At the plays end, the gas lights were turned off to force the unruly mob out of the theater with fighting continuing into the streets.
Though popular and often produced in Scandinavia it has rarely been staged elsewhere. There have been two known productions in the UK: on a Sunday evening in 1900 a single performance by the Stage Society with Granville Barker as Erik, Robert Farquharson as Bastian and Edward Knoblock as a waiter. The first ever professional production of the play, in a version by Andy Barrett (published by Nick Hern Books), premiered on 13 May 2011 at Nottingham Playhouse.
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