Arthur Riordan's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt was presented by Rough Magic at the 2011 Dublin Theatre Festival in The O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College, Dublin.

The epic tale unfolds in a bewildering sequence of events and locations inhabited by a most unlikely array of characters - not all of them human.

After much deliberation and exploration of a variety of approaches to the design we decided to set the entire action of the play in the day room of a lunatic asylum wherein an ageing Peer recounts and enacts the series of incredible episodes he apparently believes, and would have us believe, to have been his life.

Circularity is a central theme of the play and led us to create a space defined by a series of arcs. Left and right windowed corridors swept onstage concentric to the central windowed wall behind which the band Tarab performed live throughout. Through these windows Peer’s memories and delusions invade.

The Boyg appears as a giant eye