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The Wild Duck, Almeida Theatre review - meta, merciless and altogether brilliant by Matt Wolf

Robert Icke reaches a new career plateau with his Ibsen adaptation Beware the smile that Edward Hogg wears like a shield in the opening scenes of The Wild Duck, the Ibsen play refashioned into the most scalding production in many a year by Robert Icke, here in career-surpassing form. Playing James Ekdal, the photographer previously known as Hjalmar, Hogg disarms you from the outset with a bonhomie just waiting to sna…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:12PM on October 24, 2018

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