"Even before its official opening, Simon Stone's The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge Theatre feels like one of those productions destined to dominate the autumn theatre conversation. Production images have been released, and they confirm what many suspected: this is not going to be a reverent museum piece of Ibsen, but a bracingly modern encounter between text, actor, and audience."
"The play, which opens on 18 September and runs until 8 November, is Henrik Ibsen's strangest and most modern examination of love, freedom, and female selfhood. First staged in 1889, it gives us Ellida, a woman married to a respectable doctor in a coastal town, yet haunted by the life she might have lived with another man. When that former lover reappears, she faces a choice between the safety of her present and the wild pull of her past."
Simon Stone presents a radical, modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge Theatre, opening 18 September and running until 8 November. The production casts Alicia Vikander in her UK stage debut as Ellida, and names Andrew Lincoln among a leading ensemble. The story follows Ellida, married to a respectable doctor in a coastal town, haunted by a former lover whose return forces a choice between safety and the pull of the past. Stone's past work, including Yerma (2016) and Phaedra, demonstrates a pattern of stripping decorative trappings to expose raw, contemporary tensions in family, desire and female selfhood. Production images indicate a bracingly modern encounter between text, actor and audience.
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