Once again this winter, followers of the “the father of modern drama” Henrik Ibsen flock to the rural town of Lanesboro, Minnesota, for the annual Ibsen festival. Sarah Lemanczyk wanted to know why the gloomy Norwegian playwright inspires such devotion.
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