page_title: The Fountainhead (play)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: The Fountainhead (play) / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Ivo van Hove, Vlaamse toneelregisseur.
context_page_description: The Fountainhead is a play written in 2014 by Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove. It is an adaptation of the 1943 novel of the same name by American author Ayn Rand. The story focuses on Howard Roark, an individualistic architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. The production, running more than four hours, uses video projections to show close-ups of the actors and Roark's drawings, as well as backgrounds of the New York skyline.
  Since its debut at the Holland Festival in June 2014, the play has received mostly positive reviews from European critics for productions in the Netherlands, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. American critics gave mostly negative reviews to a production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 2017.
context_section_description: Author Ayn Rand's bestselling novel The Fountainhead, a 700-page epic, was published in 1943. Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove, the artistic director for the Dutch theater company Toneelgroep Amsterdam, was given a copy of the novel as a gift in 2007. After reading it, he was immediately interested in adapting it for the stage, but he was not able to secure the adaptation rights until 2012. The four-hour-plus production debuted at the Holland Festival on 15 June 2014. Ramsey Nasr starred as Howard Roark, with Halina Reijn as Dominique Francon.
  After its debut the play went on tour, appearing in Barcelona, Spain, in early July 2014 and at the Festival d'Avignon in France later that month. The play appeared at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris in November 2016.
  The company traveled to the Republic of Korea in 2017, presenting the play at the LG Arts Center in Seoul from 31 March to 2 April. Later in 2017, the play had its first American production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, where it ran from 28 November to 2 December. The play debuted in the United Kingdom at the Manchester International Festival in July 2019.
caption: Ivo van Hove wrote and directed the play.
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