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John Gabriel Borkman

BAM hosts the US premiere of a new version by Frank McGuinness of Henrik Ibsen's classic, directed by James Macdonald.

Greed is good, according to Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman—until it sends him to prison for embezzlement and leaves him ruined, disgraced, and desperate for a comeback. Three outstanding actors—Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona Shaw—join a wonderful ensemble from Ireland's acclaimed Abbey Theatre to tell this timely tale of one man's undoing in the wake of relentless deception and fraud.

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