There was a time when you did not have to write about sex with cats to cause a fuss. Ibsen caused a storm with the notion that women were as entitled as men to think and live for themselves.
Zinnie Harris’s new version with Gillian Anderson’s breathlessly naïve Nora transposes the action to London, and the job of Nora’s newly promoted husband (a terrific Toby Stephens, whose Thomas moves from indulgent chauvinist to raging bully) from banker to self-important politician. The result is lots of contemporary resonance for director Kfir Yefet’s solid production. I missed, though, a sense of suppressed intelligence from Anderson’s otherwise fine Nora. But she gets fine support from a fevered Christopher Eccleston as Thomas’s disgraced predecessor.
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