The National Theatre’s production of Hedda Gabler opens with Hedda and Berte, her maid, seated on stage. While other characters appear and talk to Ber...
Hedda Gabler, in the most basic terms, follows the new marriage between the titular character (Lizzy Watts) and a rising academic, Tessman (Abhin Gale...
Because I live most of the year in a small town in Texas, I often think about Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. In my little town there is wealth under...
These are two separate plays--the famous early modern Scandinavian ones, by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg respectively--to which tickets may be b...
The Master Builder is a play about the spaces in between, a theme that Howell’s stunning set emphasises: it is full of slicing geometric shapes, slant...
Belvoir Sydney's The Wild Duck is a lot like an archaeological dig. Bear with me on this. Simon Stone and Chris Ryan have taken their shovels to the f...
As fast as any of Ibsen’s plays allow, Carrie Cracknell’s A Doll’s House hurtles towards its heroine’s escape—a nineteenth century escape that achieve...
I have no idea why I have never before seen Ghosts; I’ve seen at least one production of most of Ibsen’s other plays. Coming to this tragedy for the v...
There is a certain power to An Enemy of the People. A power which has sometimes overflowed the bounds of the theatre. The famous instance would be its...
