The tragic moment in The Master Builder (or in most any artist's life) arrives , when Solness finally breaks down and let's Hilde have a glimpse behind his carefully erected facade. All the bitterness about having sacrificed his own happiness to defy a jealous (definitely Protestant) god, who would have him but built edifices for his (god's) glory, and people not realising this sacrifice, ie not becoming happy in the homes Solness erects for them ("all they wanted were four walls"), bursts free in this liberating breakdown. Here Michael Pennington is surely at his best and overwhelmingly magnificent, this was the moment that gave me shivers during both performances. :-) Wahnsinn!!!
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