Rose theatre, KingstonSo much is established so quickly in Ibsen's 1888 play about free will, female dependence and the ghosts of the past that it takes a particularly strong cast to shoulder the rapidly unfolding plot. As Ellida, a married woman in a stifling Norwegian fjord town who yearns to return to the sea, Joely Richardson convincingly plays out the conflicts at the heart of the role. Richardson has an ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM on March 3, 2012