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Amish Tours of Harmony
Anna V’s B&B
Bluffscape Amish Tours
Crown Trout Jewelers
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Green Gables Inn
Habberstad House B&B
Hillcrest Hideaway B&B
Intermission Restaurant
Lanesboro Arts Center
Lanesboro BP
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Marketplace
Lanesboro Public Library
Old Village Hall
Olivia’s Attic
Parkway Pub
Pedal Pushers Cafe
Preston Floral
Treasures & More
Rhino’s Pizza and
Sub Shoppe
Riverside on the Root
Restaurant
Royal Norwegian Embassy
Washington D.C.
Root River Saloon
Scandinavian Inn B&B
Scenic Valley Winery
Slant Avenue Mercantile
Smokey River Barbeque
Sons of Norway:
Kristiania Lodge 47
Heimbygda Lodge 1-376
Skogvannet Lodge 1-658
Valdres Lodge 503
Stone Mill Hotel
and Suites
Sweet Stop and
Sandwich Shoppe
Vesterheim
Norwegian-American
Museum
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A Commitment to Ibsen
“The Commonweal’s Ibsen expertise is one of the region’s best kept secrets.”
Michael Bigelow Dixon - Literary Manager, Guthrie Theater, 2004
16th Annual Ibsen Festival
April 12-14, 2013
Click here to see the 2013 Festival schedule of events.
Don't miss the 16th Annual Ibsen Festival, featuring a world premiere adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher of Ibsen’s groundbreaking masterpiece A Doll's House. A wife must make a heart-breaking choice when the past threatens to destroy her perfect household. Ibsen's classic is presented as the latest in a series of adaptations by acclaimed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and commissioned by the Commonweal Theatre. As always, the festival will include lectures, fine art, music, post show discussions and many other events to put this work into context for a twenty-first century audience.
Ibsen Tour
Spring 2013
Every other year we tour our Ibsen production throughout the upper midwest. Beginning in March, A Doll's House will travel to mutiple cities and towns before returning home to open the Ibsen festival. Click here for a complete list of tour sites and dates for our 2013 tour.
We are currently booking tour dates for our 2013 production of A Doll’s House. If you are interested in bringing Ibsen to your town, contact Megan Pence our company manager for more info.
Ibsen Road Scholar
In cooperation with Winona State University, we offer an annual Ibsen Road Scholar — a week-long immersion into the man and his art. Click here for more information on this and all Road Scholar programs.
Ibsen Presentations
Perfect for heritage organizations, classes and church groups, the Commonweal offers programs and discussions on Ibsen's legacy tailored to the needs and interests of your group. For more information contact Ibsen Festival Coordinator Adrienne Sweeney at (507) 467-2905 x208.
International Ibsen Scholarship & Award
In 2008 the Commonweal Theatre Company was awarded one of the first International Ibsen Scholarships for our commitment to the works of Henrik Ibsen. In addition to a monetary award, Executive Director Hal Cropp and Ibsen Festival Coordinator Adrienne Sweeney traveled to Norway as guests of the Norwegian government to receive the award and participate in the bi-ennial Ibsen Festival and Conference.
In conjunction with the Ibsen Scholarships, the Norwegian Parliment annually bestows the International Ibsen Award to honor an individual, organization or institution for exceptional achievements defined within the spirit of Ibsen’s work. Seminal theatre director Peter Brook was the recipient of the 2008 International Ibsen Award. Commonweal Executive Director Hal Cropp was nominated in 2009.
• To read more about the award, click here.
• To read more about the trip, click here
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