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INSANE: Ibsen - The Real Truth

Letters: George Bennett obituary

Dennis Butts writes: His flair for fun and invention came out in 1956 in a spoof Ibsen exhibition

The Guardian - UK

Jan Morris by Sara Wheeler review – masterly account of a flawed figure

The journalistic adventurer and trans trailblazer is revealed as brilliant, prolific and deeply selfish

The Guardian - UK

Jane Lapotaire was a sensation as Edith Piaf – and a majestic actor you’d never regret seeing on stage

Lapotaire’s portrayal of the French singer transcended impersonation and she revealed her instinctive intelligence in Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen and much more

The Guardian - UK

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Seasons review – it’s Ibsen vs Peter Pan in chronicle of actors messing up their lives on and off stage

Polish director-writer Michal Grzybowski’s film has inspired flashes, but mostly eschews humour for a drearier take on the intertwining of stage and life

The Guardian - UK

Simon Stone on luring film stars on stage, family tragedy and staging Chekhov in Korean: ‘It’s one of the proudest moments in my career’

Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard

The Guardian - AU

The best theatre to stream this month: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry goes an extra mile

Passenger reworks songs from his hit musical while Tanika Gupta gives Ibsen a Hollywood makeover and TikTok becomes a stage for young playwrights

The Guardian - UK

Hedda review – Ibsen transposed to world of pencil moustaches and tea dresses

Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta’s forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period

The Guardian - UK

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Hedda at the Orange Tree Theatre: 'Super-smart but lacks tension'

3/5 Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is reimaged in Chelsea in the 40s, with Pearl Chanda’s title character an Anglo-Indian actress denying her heritage

Evening Standard

The Twistiest Drama Of The Year Is A Diabolical Psychological Thriller

Nia DaCosta reinvents a classic play with a cruel streak.

Inverse

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

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

The Guardian - UK

Creditors at Orange Tree Theatre: 'the production just lies there, inert, on the stage'

2/5 Despite an excellent cast including Charles Dance, this Strindberg psychodrama fails to spark

Evening Standard

Alicia Vikander: "I'm rehearsing my play with an AI Andrew Lincoln!"

The Oscar-winning actor is making her theatre debut in a new version of Ibsen at the Bridge. It’s still a work in progress — and she’s freaking out

Evening Standard

‘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 Sea

The Guardian - UK

A bold, queer 'Hedda,' from Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson, debuts at TIFF

Coming on the heels of her Marvel Studios film “The Marvels,” DaCosta premiered her Ibsen adaptation “Hedda” at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday

The Independent UK

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Prime Video's new movie looks like an emotional rollercoaster in a single night

It's Ibsen, you philistines

The Guardian - UK

Roger Harcourt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps

The Guardian - UK

Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’

The poet and novelist on having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for Plato

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45 People Share The Most Iconic ‘Last Words’ In History

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The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

The novelist on the continuing relevance of Ibsen, the joyful quilt art of Faith Ringgold and where to find British scotch eggs in New York

The Guardian - UK

An Enemy of the People review – Matt Smith’s groovy firebrand swings from rebel to conspiracist

Rock’n’roll reimagining of Ibsen’s timeless corruption drama brings the audience into direct Question Time-style dialogue with Smith’s idealist revolutionary

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to do stuff that pushes things to the edge’: Matt Smith on friendship, fame and radical theatre

For his latest challenge, the Doctor Who star is taking to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier’s new production of Ibsen’s dynamic, politically charged An Enemy of the People

The Guardian - UK

Ghosts review – Ibsen’s intense tragedy by candlelight

Joe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize

Evening Standard

Ghosts at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre review: Hattie Morahan is a simmering maelstrom in this great production

Productions of this Norwegian play seem to be either sublime or awful: this one is very, very good indeed.

The Guardian - UK

Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

The Guardian - UK

Shooting Hedda Gabler – Ibsen update is a brilliantly unnerving study of coercive control

A demanding director drives his cast into discomforting areas in this clever play critiquing the patriarchal power structures of the movie business

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