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The Wild Duck, The Norwegian Ibsen Company, Coronet Theatre review - slow burn, devastating climax by David Nice

Ibsen's pitiless take on the 'life lie' is another triumph for Norwegians in Notting Hill "I think this is all very strange," declares 14-year-old Hedvig Ekdal at the end of The Wild Duck's third act, just as everything is about to plunge into a terrifying vortex. Alan Lucien Øyen's's production is pointedly strange from the start, a claustrophobic, Beckett-like terrain in the haunting, possibly haunted space of t…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54AM on October 24, 2024

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