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