The Globe and Mail - J. Kelly Nestruck
John Gabriel Borkman takes Ibsen’s...
“John Gabriel Borkman is a play for master actors,” Perloff writes assuredly in her director’s note – and her cast, headed by Festival stalwarts Lucy Peacock, Seana McKenna and Scott Wentworth, certainly do their best to prove that they are exactly that…Perloff doesn’t try to bridge the gap between Ibsen’s time and ours in any way – and neither does the somewhat academic new translation from the original Norwegian by Paul Walsh. This makes the play seem simply dated …”
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