When We Dead Awaken, The Norwegian Ibsen Company, Coronet Theatre review - living death, dying life
Ibsen anticipates Beckett in his strange final play, austerely staged with dashes of wit In Ibsen's last and shortest play, further cut here, four people nominally climb a mountain, but actually seem to be crossing waste land towards the land of Samuel Beckett. It's an amazing play in which reality is symbolic and symbols are real, where not one character is likeable and all speak with hallucinatory directness. The N…