Greek family smashups at the Almeida now yield to northern agony sagas, less bloody but potentially just as harrowing. In Little Eyolf the 66-year-old Ibsen dissected a failed marriage as ruthlessly as Euripides, Strindberg or Bergman, who took his cue from both of the great Scandinavian playwrights. Something of that pitilessness does come through in Richard Eyre's return to the Almeida, chiefly though an unsparing …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:15AM on November 27, 2015