Modern Icelandic Plays / Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm

Two linked stage dramas place rural eighteenth-century Icelandic life at the center: the first charts the fate of an outlaw couple whose exile, tensions with neighbors, and encounters with superstition and disease force moral choices and test loyalties; characters include a strong-willed widow, an overseer, a leper, and various villagers whose interactions reveal clashes between law, survival, and personal passion. The second play focuses on domestic and communal dynamics at a farmstead, tracing how social expectations, inheritance, and intimate relationships shape daily labor and human aspirations. Both pieces balance realistic detail, folkloric elements, and lyricism to probe identity, isolation, and the demands of society.