September 21, 2001

Brustein: Center Stage for Better and Worse

By TERRY McCABE

"Listen to me, mighty One! Henceforth I, too, want to be a free master builder. Free in my field, as You are in Yours," prays Halvard Solness, the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder.

Robert Brustein, artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre, adapted the play for its 20th-anniversary season a while back, and acknowledged at the time that he identified with Ibsen's "aging rebel." But Brustein is smarter than Solness, who plunges to his death from a tower he

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