John Gabriel Borkman Tickets

No longer booking

Venue Bridge Theatre, London
Performance dates Booking to 26 November 2022
Running time To be confirmed

A gripping, penetrating and savagely funny adaptation

Simon Russel Beale, Lia Williams and Clare Higgins star in a new version of Ibsen’s towering masterpiece, directed by Nicholas Hytner.

John Gabriel Borkman is booking until 26 November 2022 at the Bridge Theatre in London.

What’s John Gabriel Borkman about?

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.

The cast of John Gabriel Borkman

Starring Simon Russell Beale (The Lehman Trilogy, NT, West End and New York), Lia Williams (Mary Stuart, West End/Almeida; The Night of the Iguana, West End; The Crown) and Clare Higgins (Sweet Bird of Youth, Vincent in Brixton both for NT; Hecuba, Donmar).

Sebastian De Souza, Daisy Ou, Laila Rouass and Michael Simkins as Wilhelm Foldal complete the cast.

The Creative Team

Directed by Nicholas Hytner with set design by Anna Fleischle and costume design by Liam Bunster. A new version of Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman, by Lucinda Coxon from a literal transaltion by Charlotte Barslund.

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