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Anya Reiss' adaptation of A Doll's House is a faithful one in that it follows the story beats and motivations of Ibsen's origi...

Simon Stone is known for his versions of classic plays, that are sometimes not so much loose adaptations as tangentially connected to the o...

Henrik Ibsen seems to be the current favourite classic playwright for modern writers to rewrite, rework and reimagine, in plays billed as i...

I dithered over whether to see the Lyric Hammersmith's new version of Ghosts : The Swanamaker's 2023 production was possibly the b...

Trigger Warning: This review contains references to an actor who doesn't really seem to understand what trigger warnings are for. Paul ...

The Swanamaker's tenth anniversary season opens with the venue's first venture into Ibsen - a classic playwright but still thorough...

John Gabriel Borkman isn't one of the more frequently-produced Henrik Ibsen plays - I've only ever seen it once before, and then i...

Previously, in A Doll's House ... In an unpredictable year for theatregoing the Donald and Margot Warehouse has proven the most disaste...

You can't move without tripping over a production of A Doll's House lately and the Young Vic, whose last production of it feels c...

The seasoned veteran in 2019's round of Artistic Director Musical Chairs, Rachel O’Riordan taking over the Lyric Hammersmith means she...

The latest main-stage epic at the National is largely selling itself on the way it reunites the creatives from 2016 hit Young Chekhov on ...

We're going to be seeing a lot of Ibsen's A Doll's House in the next year or so as various theatres have programmed new inter...

Rosmersholm seems to get variously described as Ibsen’s masterpiece, or one his most obscure and difficult works. I would lean towards th...

The Lady From The Sea is Ellida (Nikki Amuka-Bird,) second wife to Dr Wangel (Finbar Lynch.) After an initially happy marriage, Ellida ha...

Having played a part in Lazarus existing, Ivo van Hove has a chance to redeem himself with the classic reinterpretations he does best. He...

Ralph Fiennes is The Master Bator Builder in another of Ibsen's looks at a failing marriage with a tragic backstory. He plays Halvar...

Richard Eyre returns to the Almeida to conclude a trilogy he began during the previous regime, and his admirable project of improving Ibse...

Straight back to the New Diorama for another in its trilogy of trilogies, Reptember . As I mentioned in my earlier review , this sees The ...

For his production of Ghosts  at the Almeida, Richard Eyre provides his own translation of Ibsen's play about the dangers both of unfe...

The Young Vic's reinvention of classic texts continues, and after a big hit with A Doll's House last year they turn to Ibsen agai...