Almeida, LondonJuliet Stevenson delivers one of the peak performances of the theatrical year in Robert Icke's striking reimagining of Schnitzler As a director and writer, Robert Icke specialises in updating the classics. But where his version of Ibsen's The Wild Duck struck me as an impertinence, this adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi is a brilliant expansion of the original's themes. Icke's produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM on August 21, 2019