The Lady from the Sea

Cast: 3f 5m

Staging: various exterior settings, including an ornamental pond

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 144 pages ISBN: 9781848427181Publication Date:
12 Oct 2017
Size: 198mm x 129mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
Ebook, 144 pages ISBN: 9781780019765Publication Date:
12 Oct 2017
£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Donmar Warehouse, London, 2017

The Lady from the Sea

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Elinor Cook

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Ellida, the lighthouse-keeper's daughter, is trapped in her marriage and longs for the sea. When a former lover returns from years of absence, she is forced to decide between freedom and the new life she has made for herself.
 
Relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s, Elinor Cook's version of Henrik Ibsen's shattering 1888 play about duty and self-determination premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Press Quotes

'Elinor Cook's beautiful new version is transporting... unforgettable'

The Observer

'One of the strangest and most haunting of Ibsen's works… Elinor Cook's sharp adaptation and relocation to a post-colonial British island manages to update the proceedings while also emphasising the social expectations that make this less of a paradise than it looks for the female characters in the play… draws on its Caribbean setting for some fine moments of humour'

Independent

'In Elinor Cook's strong new adaptation... could have been written yesterday… a beautiful, delicate and universal portrayal of human relationships at their most complex'

WhatsOnStage

'Profoundly beautiful… what you take away are both lightness and depth, and there could be no greater honour to the balancing act of Ibsen’s great human comedy than that'

The Arts Desk

'Elinor Cook's new version clarifies a familiar text… the dialogue [is] updated with a good deal of ingenuity'

Guardian

Cast: 3f 5m

Staging:various exterior settings, including an ornamental pond

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,144 pages ISBN: 9781848427181Publication Date:
12 Oct 2017
Size: 198mm x 129mm£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
Ebook,144 pages ISBN: 9781780019765Publication Date:
12 Oct 2017
£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)

Also by Henrik Ibsen:

Rosmersholm
Hedda Gabler
Hedda
An Enemy of the People
Emperor and Galilean
Nora : A Doll's House
Peer Gynt
Hedda Gabler
The Wild Duck
John Gabriel Borkman
A Doll's House
Little Eyolf
Judgement Day
Hedda Gabler
The Master Builder
John Gabriel Borkman
Ghosts
Peer Gynt
The Master Builder
The League of Youth
John Gabriel Borkman
Ghosts
An Enemy of the People
The Lady From the Sea
An Enemy of the People
A Master Builder
A Doll's House
A Doll's House
Rosmersholm
Ibsen: Three Plays
Hedda Tesman

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Also by Elinor Cook:

Pilgrims
The Girl's Guide to Saving the World
Image of an Unknown Young Woman
Out of Love

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