JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN IS A prescient archetype for the scape-grace modern tycoon: a man dwelling with the shadow of past misdemeanors and the toll that discovery has taken on his family and former associates.
You can meet such men among New York financiers and tech titans or Me Too’d Hollywood execs and ousted media moguls penning memoirs of how badly they were treated for an accounting offence.
The contemporary echoes of reputation-crashing must surely have been the thinking of the Bridge Theatre’s artistic director Nicholas Hytner when casting as Borkman Simon
