Geografi og Kærlighed | |
Premiere: | 1885 |
Place: | Christiania Theatre, Oslo, Norway |
Orig Lang: | Norwegian |
Geografi og Kærlighed (Geography and Love) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.[1] It was written in 1885 and it premiered at the Christiania Theatre on October 21, 1885. Bjørnson later reworked the last act of the play in the winter of 1893–1894.[2]
The main characters in the play are Professor Tygesen and his wife Karen.
The play appeared in an English translation by Edwin Björkman titled Love and Geography in 1914.[3] [4]
The play has been performed a number of times in Norway's leading theaters, and it was filmed by NRK's Television Theater department in 1975.