Theatre Works: When We Dead Awaken (We Have Never Lived)
28 July @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm AEST

It ends in an avalanche (everyone is going to die in the avalanche).
Welcome to Resurrection Day Mountain Resort. The thawing permafrost is sending bodies down the mountainside. In 1350 more than 60% of Norway’s population died of the Black Plague. They’re back. Enjoy your stay.
Ibsen’s final and least liked play (‘When We Dead Awaken’, 1899) didn’t have a mountain troll, a ghost an actual ghost, or a nun with a shotgun. Whether it was missing them or not, now it does. It’s also missing most of the play.
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