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Pure gold: My Master Builder, at Wyndham’s Theatre, reviewed

Plus: if you like Irish melodrama you’ll find The Brightening Air at the Old Vic a lot more entertaining than the festering miserabilism of Brian Friel

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The stage crackles with dangerous energy whenever she appears: Kate Fleetwood as Elena Solness in My Master Builder JOHAN PERSSON
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 03 May 2025
issue 03 May 2025

My Master Builder is a new version of Ibsen’s classic with a tweaked title and a transformed storyline. Henry and Elena Solness are a British power couple living in the Hamptons whose relationship is in meltdown after the accidental death of their son. Elena has scrambled to reach the top of the publishing world but she feels bitter that Henry’s career as an architect came to him so easily.

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