David Eldridge's new version of Ibsen's classic play, published to
coincide with its premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester, October 2010. When the lighthouse keeper's daughter
Ellida meets the widower Dr Wangel, she tries to put her long-lost
first love far behind her and begin a new life as a wife and
stepmother. But the tide is turning, an English ship is coming down
the fjord, and the undercurrents threaten to drag a whole family
beneath the surface in this passionate and sweeping drama. Ellida
must choose between the values of the land: solidity and
reliability against those of the sea: mystery and fluidity. Ibsen's
lyrical and still startlingly modern masterpiece, anticipated the
emergence of psychoanalysis and talking cures. Similar to Hedda
Gabler and A Doll's House, The Lady from the Sea vibrantly explores
the constrained social position of women, exploring themes of
choice, marriage, responsibility and freedom. David Eldridge's
translation is subtle, faithful and sensitive to Ibsen's language,
and makes this classic play accessible to the English reader
without compromising any of the original's intensely poetic and
atmospheric tone.
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