Posterity (play)

Posterity
Written byDoug Wright
Directed byDoug Wright
Date premiered25 February 2015
Place premieredAtlantic Theatre Company
Original languageEnglish
Subjectsculpting, legacy, art, death
GenreDrama
Setting1901 Norway

Posterity is a 2015 play written and directed by the Pulitzer Prize-award-winning American playwright Doug Wright. The play focuses on the 1901 encounters between Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland and famed playwright Henrik Ibsen, when the latter sat for a series of sessions to have his bust sculpted. It premiered off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company's Linda Gross Theater