Updated at 6.57pm: New York-based theatre company Mabou Mines will stage an avant garde production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in Hong Kong to mark the centenary of the great Norwegian playwright's death.
Born in March 1828, Ibsen is considered one of the world's most influential playwrights. He helped bring about the rise of the modern realistic dramas by the turn of 20th-century.
Ibsen is held as a national symbol by Norwegians and is believed to be the most frequently performed dramatist internationally - after William Shakespeare.
A spokesman for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) said on Monday three shows of DollHouse, an award-winning production of Ibsen's A Doll's House by Lee Breuer from Mabou Mines, would be performed in June at Kwai Tsing Theatre.
Mabou Mines's adaptation won an award for Direction and Performance in the 2004 Off-Broadway Theater Awards (OBIE), one of the most prestigious annual awards to theatrical works in the United States.
Published in 1879, A Doll's House is one of the most significant modern plays. It has had a profound influence on both drama and on modern society. Originally, the play was very controversial, because it was very critical of the traditional roles of men and women at the time.
The LCSD spokesman praised the Mabou Mines production for fully projecting Ibsen's views on 19th century values.