'Peer Gynt' by Henrik Ibsen at the University Theatre, Manchester in 1970 First performance: 21st December a sequence of production photographs

Tom Courtenay as Peer and Avril Elgar as Aase 2mb 65kb, 5 minutes 28 seconds - Johanna Bryant, who assisted Negri on this production, describes the process of realising Negri's vision of the setting. Particular focus is on the description of acquiring the slate slabs from a Welsh quarry and the conflict with Litz Pisk who refused to allow her dancers to perform on a surface that she thought would lacerate their bare feet. Johanna also makes an interesting comparison between Leo McKern and Tom Courtenay as two very different actors in the title role in the two Elliott/Negri productions of 1962 and 1970.