The Bridge Theatre has announced a casting update for the upcoming revival of Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman, in a new version by Lucinda Coxon.
Joining the previously announced Simon Russell Beale in the title role are Clare Higgins as Gunhild Borkman and Lia Williams as Ella Rentheim.
Final casting will be announced at a later date.
Directed by Nicholas Hytner with set designs by Anna Fleischle and costume designs by Liam Bunster, John Gabriel Borkman will run at London’s Bridge Theatre from 24 September to 26 November 2022.
John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback. Downstairs, his estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. When her sister arrives unannounced, she triggers a desperate showdown with the past.
