★★☆☆☆This new play from Samuel Adamson begins with, er, a play. It’s a creaky production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. “Here’s your ring,” emotes Nora, played by an actress named Suzannah in full buttoned-up mode to her husband, Torvald. But that would be A Doll’s House and not this curious beast in which Ibsen’s Nora is used as a way of examining unsatisfactory marriages, gay and straight, over the period of decades. Adamson uses Nora almost as a lure, dangled before us, making us want to keep watching.

Source: The Times June 05, 2019 16:30 UTC