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The Lady From The Sea

When the lighthouse keeper's daughter Ellida meets the widower Dr Wangel, she tries to put her long-lost first love far behind her and begin a new life as a wife and stepmother. But the tide is turning, and English ship is coming down the fjord, and the undercurrents threaten to drag a whole family beneath the surface in this Passionate and sweeping drama.


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It’s an enormous challenge to attempt the revival of a play which enjoyed such a tremendous success for the Royal Exchange in 1978, when Vanessa Redgrave starred in this Ibsen classic. more

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Anonymous wrote on the 08/12/10 at 13:36…
Good play and well done. I wished the young girls carried themselves better. The sailor from the sea didn't give me any reason for me to believe he was the catch he was made out to be, a little more stage presence or super-magnetic personality/attraction wouldn't have gone amiss.
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ecbian wrote on the 26/10/10 at 11:14…
It is sometimes difficult for productions to bring to the stage the undercurrents of the repressed lives that populate Ibsen’s work. By using a stark, almost minimalist, set this Exchange production allows the actors the freedom to reveal the essence of their characters and this cast gra…

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