The Homecoming and Little Eyolf: new views stay faithful to Pinter and Ibsen
The temptation to update the text of an old play for a modern audience is resisted in two productions that refresh the originals in more intelligent waysTwo striking revivals last week " of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming " bring up again the rumbling question of the level of fidelity that an old text can demand from directors and designers. From what I can tell by comparing his English…