Dates & Times: Sep 6 - Oct 5, various times see website
Location: The Lyric, Hammersmith
Themes of cultural identity and race are also explored in this version of the Ibsen classic which marks Rachel O’Riordan’s directorial debut as Lyric artistic director.
Set in Calcutta in 1879, Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.