Book description
Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day.
She loves her husband Dr Wangel but, ten years ago, promised herself
to another man. On a late summer's day he comes to claim her. Henrik
Ibsen's elusive masterpiece The Lady from the Sea, in a translation by
Stephen Unwin, premiered at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, in February 2012.
Stephen Unwin is Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston.
He founded English Touring Theatre in 1993, where his Shakespeare
productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You
Like It, Henry IV, Parts One and Two, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. He
is the winner of the 2003 Sam Wanamaker Shakespeare Globe Award. He
directed Kenneth McLeish's translations of A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler
and The Master Builder. He has directed more than fifty theatre and
opera productions for the Royal National Theatre, English National
Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Court Theatre and many others.
His work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida Theatre and
the Old Vic. He has co-written A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama
and A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg (Faber and Faber),
So You Want to be a Theatre Director? (Nick Hern Books) and A Guide to
the Plays of Bertolt Brecht (Methuen).
