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Pillars of the Community
Samuel Adamson
Pillars of Society (Fjelde, trans.)
by Henrik Ibsen, Rolf Fjelde
Synopsis
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.
but suddenly his past explodes on him: Johan Tønnesen, his wife's younger brother comes back from America to the town he ran away from 15 years ago.
At the time it was thought he had run off with money from the Bernick family business and with the urge to avoid scandal because he was having an affair with an actress.
With Tønnesen comes his half-sister Lona, who once loved and was loved by Bernick.
This mixture only needs a spark to explode and it gets one when Tønnesen falls in love with Dina Dorf, a young girl who is the daughter of the actress involved in the scandal of 15 years ago and who now lives as a charity case in the Bernick household.
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Publisher Samuel French
Pillars of Society (Fjelde, trans.) is a play written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Samuel French .
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