ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an introduction to the aesthetics and performance practices of the Norwegian and German collaborators, Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller. Focusing on Vinge/Müller’s on-going series of productions known as the Ibsen-Saga (2006–), the essay details the artists’ distinctive juxtaposition of fiction and reality, associative use of intertexts, on-stage direction, open-ended performance dramaturgy, and the conflicts that have arisen as a result of their practices. Vinge/Müller’s work is contextualized by European traditions of Director’s Theatre, Postdramatic Theatre, and plays of Henrik Ibsen.
