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...Nicholas Hytner comes at this bitter, heady brew with a stellar cast — Simon Russell Beale as Borkman, Clare Higgins as Gunhild and Lia Williams as Ella — and a huge concrete set from Anna Fleischle that...
...But, despite a strong cast led by the excellent Jenna Russell, so much of it here comes over as trite and corny....
...O’Flynn and Essiedu return in Lia Williams’ cool, subtle staging of the elliptical Ashes to Ashes (1996), in which atrocity invades the living room as a woman talks to her partner about her past....
...Lia Williams is a searing Klytemnestra....
...Robert Icke’s adaptation grapples with big questions about justice, justification and storytelling, and features a searing Klytemnestra from Lia Williams....
...For May 33rd, a woman – played by Lia Williams (Hibbert’s wife) – suffers from a condition now known as dissociative identity disorder, typically the product of prolonged abuse....
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