John Gabriel Borkman
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Nicholas Hytner Tickets from £15, Bridge Theatre, London (bridgetheatre.co.uk)
Nicholas Hytner’s production of Ibsen’s opens with Gunhild Borkman (Clare Higgins) sitting on the sofa wrapped up in a blanket by an electric fire, which seems an appropriate opening given our current cost-of-living and energy crisis. The play is about the aftermath of a fraud case that saw Gunhild’s husband, banker John
