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18 days ago

Wagner Moura to lead Ibsen update in unique festival collaboration

Brazilian actor will star in The Trial: Enemy of the People, which examines modern political and environmental conflicts

The award-winning Brazilian actor Wagner Moura is to star in a new play being s…

36 days ago

Hedda Gabler meets silver screen legend Merle Oberon in this new twist on Ibsen's tragedy. Old Henrik would have loved it, says our theatre critic

Pearl Chanda's Hedda is a dark-eyed beauty, married to an unsuccessful movie director and living in London. She has nothing to do but play with her father's pistols - and other people's lives,

45 days ago

Star Trek’s Chris Pine to make London theatre debut in Ivanov next summer

The Hollywood actor will star in a new version of the Chekhov classic by writer-director Simon Stone at the Bridge theatre from July

Star Trek’s Chris Pine will boldly go to the Bridge next summer but…

52 days ago

‘She does terrible things’: what can a Marvel director do with Ibsen’s ruthless heroine Hedda Gabler? ⊕⊕

She made her name with a horror reboot and a mega-budget Marvel. So what drew Nia DaCosta to the dour Norwegian’s work? We meet the film-maker and Tessa Thompson, who plays Hedda as a sexy, sultry, m…

79 days ago

The Lady from the Sea review – Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander make waves in magnificent rewrite

Bridge theatre, London
Ibsen’s mysticism and mermaids are thrown out as director Simon Stone amps up the 1888 play’s psychological intensity with his eco-focused update

Writer-director Simon Stone is k…

89 days ago

‘It will be frightening but you have to do it’: Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander’s nerve-shredding stage return

Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen’s The Lady from the S…

3 months ago

Hedda review – Lily Allen leads a helter-skelter take on Ibsen’s tragedy

Ustinov Studio, Bath
Allen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s

It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew Dunster’s…

6 months ago

7 months ago

Nikki Amuka-Bird: ‘I’d have drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race play me in the film of my life’

The actor on social anxiety at parties, the gap between her front teeth, and missing the days of video rentals

Born in Nigeria, Nikki Amuka-Bird, 49, studied at Lamda and began her career with the RSC…

Female director makes woke demand to ban all plays by white male writers for a year as 'big idea' to shape the future of theatre in Britain

American director, Katie Gilchrist, has proposed a year-long ban on staging the works of white male writers. Such a ban would include everyone from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ibsen and Pinter.

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