Henrik Ibsen Archives

Elizabeth Debicki as Mathilde and Ewan McGregor as Henry Solness (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: My Masterbuilder, Wyndham’s (2025)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:4 May 2025
Post category:Play Review West End

Ibsen Turns into Chick Lit Henry: “I no longer have that fire in me.”Matilde: “Then maybe you need someone to strike a match!” Elizabeth Debicki as Mathilde and Ewan McGregor…

Victoria Smurfit as Helena (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Ghosts, Lyric Hammersmith (2025)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 April 2025
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Ibsen as Dark Comedy ”It wouldn’t be the first time you have thrown yourself at me!” Andersen Victoria Smurfit as Helena (Photo: Helen Murray) Mmm. . . I’ve just read…

Simon Russell Beale as John Gabriel Borkman (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: John Gabriel Borkmam, Bridge Theatre (2022)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:2 October 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Fraudsters’ final victims are themselves and their families “Like Ibsen’s Borkman, brooding upstairs, Madoff seemed to think that his criminal career was the result, not of greed, or avarice, but…