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Premiere performance of the production took place at the National Theatre Oslo, Norway, as part of the Olympic Arts Festival attached to the 17th Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer 1994. After 28 performances, the production moved to London’s Barbican Theatre.

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The story follows the illegitimate Peer as a youth, in and out of scrapes in his home village where he lives with his long suffering mother Ase. His easy charm makes girls easily seduced. He meets some of the Trolls that live in the mountain, witnesses extreme debauchery there and gets embroiled with an (ugly and green) Troll princess. He sees the virtuous Solveig, is outlawed, builds a home for Solveig, doesn’t seduce her and goes to seek his fortune after the death of his mother. Peer #2, the adventurer who makes and loses fortunes in America, Africa and meets the captivating, dancing Anitra in Arabia. Returning home, Peer #3 encounters The Button Maker, the figure of death, but finds redemption through the love of his patient Solveig.

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