Theatre-lovers should take advantage of a rare opportunity to see a fine production at the Stratford Festival of Ibsen’s fascinating second-last play John Gabriel Borkman (1896). From the point of view of the history of Western drama, the play allows viewers to see the transition of drama from the movement of Realism, for which Ibsen is best known, to that of Symbolism, which followed…The first act battle itself is a masterpiece of direction where suspicion and reticence slowly give way to bitter accusations and displays of power.