Final casting announced for JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN at Bridge Theatre

Final casting has been announced by Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman, which plays at the Bridge Theatre from 24 September-26 November.

Joining Simon Russell Beale in the title role, Clare Higgins as Gunhild Borkman and Lia Williams as Ella Rentheim, will be Sebastian De Souza (The Great) as Erhart Borkman, Daisy Ou (Guildhall School of Music & Drama graduate) as Frida Foldal, Laila Rouass (Footballers’ Wives) as Fanny Wilton and Michael Simkins (The Crown) as Wilhelm Foldal, in this new version of the play by Lucinda Coxon.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the production has set design by Anna Fleischle, costumes by Liam Bunster, lighting by James Farncombe and sound by Gareth Fry.

John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback. Downstairs, his estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. When her sister arrives unannounced, she triggers a desperate showdown with the past. Ibsen’s most contemporary play, in a new version by Lucinda Coxon, is gripping, penetrating and savagely funny.

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