Nottingham PlayhouseIbsen fanciers are in seventh heaven. In advance of the National's Emperor and Galilean, we get the British professional premiere of this 1869 prose comedy, although I did see it revived by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 18 years ago with a young Damian Lewis in the lead. Then as now, I am struck both by the play's structural creakiness and its exuberant exploration of what were to become…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM on May 17, 2011