Full casting has been announced for a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge Theatre, directed by Simon Stone.
The Lady from the Sea is playing at the Bridge Theatre in London from 10 September to 8 November 2025.
Already announced are Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) as Ellida, and Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead, Teachers, Love Actually) as Edward.
They are joined by Isobel Akuwudike (The Road Trip) as Hilda, Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist, Conversations with Friends, The Favourite) as Heath, Brendan Cowell (Yerma, The Life of Galileo) as Finn Marcet, John Macmillan (House of the Dragon, Phaedra) as Lyle, and Gracie Oddie-James (Grantchester) as Asa.
The Lady from the Sea is adapted and directed by Simon Stone, the Australian theatre and film director whose acclaimed stage productions include Yerma at the Young Vic, and Phaedra at the National Theatre.
The production is billed as a thrilling dissection of desire, loss and rebirth for the contemporary age, and the story centres on Ellida (Alicia Vikander), who is fearful she may have settled too easily for a comfortable life married to a well-off doctor. As she searches for a way to break the predictable routine her existence has become, a lover from her past appears at their remote country house, and she has to choose between the life she has now built and the one she left behind long ago.
The creative team also includes set designer Lizzie Clachan (The Witches), costume designer Mel Page (Phaedra), composition and sound designer Stefan Gregory (Yerma), lighting designer Nick Schlieper (The Picture of Dorian Gray), casting director Jessica Ronane CDG (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) and assistant designer Pip Terry (The Time Traveller’s Wife).
The Lady from the Sea is playing at the Bridge Theatre from 10 September to 8 November 2025.
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