There comes a point in a writer's life when he " it's usually a he " stops writing about life and starts writing about writing. With Ibsen this stage arrived in the self-reflexive rage and unquiet of When We Dead Awaken " the play the author seemed to realise would be his last. Brooding on genius, art and the clamour of the everyday, it's an inhospitable work and not one we see often; London's last professional reviv…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:57PM on November 21, 2011