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Liv Gulbrandsen offers a breathtakingly funny, intimate and heartfelt story about Henrik Ibsen and her own grandmother.

Liv Gulbrandsen's grandmother loved Ibsen. And she dragged her granddaughter to the theater so that Liv, at a far too young age, could see Hedda shoot herself. Her grandmother had a story she couldn't tell, and some vital advice. But what story was this? Sometimes we need to use the words of others where we lack our own.

Many people know author, presenter and cultural personality Liv Gulbrandsen from her feminist, literary rants on stage. The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Karl Ove Knausgård's six-volume work My Struggle and Jo Nesbø's crime novels about Harry Hole have all been the subject of Gulbrandsen's good-natured wrath. When she now takes the works of Norway's greatest playwright as her starting point, we can expect a different, more personal story. Liv recounts wise and strange experiences of Ibsen's plays with her grandmother, in a breakneck performance where you can cry and laugh, or laugh until you cry.

The production Shut up, it's Ibsen! is a comical, intimate and heartfelt declaration of love to our mothers and grandmothers, about the struggles of generations, about art, theater - and not least about Henrik Ibsen.

Producer: Feelgood & iStage in collaboration with Nationaltheatret

Photo: Leikny Havik