Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Henrik Ibsen has been called the father of realism for works exploring the dark side of the psyche and issues of morality that scandalized his 19th-century contemporaries.
It seems the Norwegian playwright also had a crystal ball.
The oh so modern-day crime committed by the title character in Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" is embezzlement. When we meet him, former bank manager Borkman has spent eight years in prison for investing customers' funds without their permission and eight more years in self-imposed isolation, all the while defiant that his actions were in the name of the greater good.
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