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Little Eyolf review " Richard Eyre's shockingly intense Ibsen by Michael Billington

Almeida, London A striking production, starring Lydia Leonard, vividly captures what Henry James called 'the hard compulsion' of this terrifying masterpieceThe Almeida is fast becoming the home of marital mayhem. No sooner have Rachel Cusk's Medea and Jason stopped tearing strips off each other than we get Henrik Ibsen's unsparing portrait, written in 1894, of a couple's guilt and grief. As with his earlier Ghosts, R…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM on November 27, 2015

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