![]() ![]() The dramatization of The Blazing World played as part of the 2015 CPH STAGE festival to international audiences who gave it a very favourable reception. A modest Danish company being the first in the world to acquire the rights to Siri Hustvedt’s masterpiece was something very special. This production premiered last year, attracting considerable media coverage. Identity, gender and art in thriller packaging are major characteristics of her writing. Her works have been translated into more than thirty languages. Siri Hustvedt is a columnist for The New York Times and Psychology Today. But her devious plan is challenged and she is thrown into an existential battle of life and art. Once she has achieved the success she anticipates, Harriet Burden will lower all the masks and step forward to claim her rightful place in the artistic pantheon. ![]() In her quest for vengeance and vindication she conceives an experimental art project: she engages three men to front three solo exhibitions of her own creative work. Harriet Burden has never achieved the recognition from the New York art scene she believes she deserves. Award-winning New York-based author Siri Hustvedt’s latest bestseller The Blazing World is produced for the stage for the first time in the world by the Mungo Park theatre company from Denmark. ![]()
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