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The Lady From the Sea at Kingston's Rose Theatre

24/01/2012

Joely Richardson stars in THE LADY FROM THE SEA
by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Stephen Unwin

Rose Theatre, Kingston
23 February – 17 March 2012

Joely Richardson stars as Ellida in Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, at the Rose Theatre, Kingston next spring for a limited run.

Golden Globe winner Joely Richardson has starred in seven series of US American TVs Nip/Tuck and, more recently, The Tudors. Her recent stage appearance in Side Effects in New York won resounding plaudits, prompting the New York Times to say “Now that Joely Richardson has returned to the New York theater, I have just one question: Can we keep her?” Ben Brantley, New York Times (June 2011).
Joely has three imminent major film releases - Roland Emmerich's Anonymous with Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave and David Thewlis; David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Daniel Craig, and Red Lights with Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver.

This production is directed by Stephen Unwin, artistic director of the Rose. He has been hailed by the national critics as an exceptional interpreter of Ibsen, having directed five Ibsen productions, including an award-winning Hedda Gabler at the Donmar Warehouse – “The best director of Ibsen in Britain” The Guardian. He has also written a successful book with Michael Pennington on Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg, published by Faber and Faber.

Stephen says “It gives me huge pleasure to stage Ibsen’s elusive masterpiece at the Rose, and I’m doubly delighted that Joely Richardson has decided to mark her return to the British stage with this collaboration. Edmund Gosse wrote that ‘after so many tragedies, this is a comedy…’ Certainly, in The Lady from the Sea (1888) Ibsen offers an answer to the riddle that he posed in A Doll’s House (1879): a happy marriage is possible, but only under conditions of absolute freedom. This will be my sixth production of Ibsen, but the first that I have staged at the Rose. Ibsen is the great dramatist of the modern world and, in my opinion, second only to Shakespeare “

LISTINGS INFORMATION: The Lady from the Sea
Friends booking opens Saturday 8 October
General bookings from Monday 24 October

Runs from Thursday 23 February – Saturday 17 March 2012
Tickets £14 - £30; pit cushions £8 (bring your own cushion for free or hire for £3)
23 – 28 February £15, £20; pit cushions £8
Group discounts available on selected performances
Box Office 08444 821 556
www.rosetheatrekingston.org (bkg fee)