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Performance Times: 7:30pm – Matinee
performance on 15th March at 2:30
Running time: 165 mins / 15 min interval

Adapted by: Mike Poulton
Director: Lucy Bailey
Designer: Mike Britton
Lighting Designer: Oliver Fenwick
Composer: Luke Stoneham
Sound Designer: Dan Hoole

Special Dates

Theatre Day : Thu 13 March
Spotlight : Fri 14 March
After Dark : Wed 19 March

Three Course Dinner Available: Find out more

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company presents

The Lady From The Sea

Fri 7 Mar 2008 – Sat 29 Mar 2008

Main House

By Henrik Ibsen, Adapted by Mike Poulton

Married to the respectable Dr Wangel, Ellida has a secure, comfortable but land-locked life. She is constantly drawn towards the sea. As memories of a past love threaten to overwhelm her will she suffocate on dry land, or find freedom across the ocean?

The Lady From The Sea is one of Ibsen’s most lyrical, hopeful and rarely performed plays. Director Lucy Bailey adapted and directed the first British stage version of Tennessee Williams’ screen play Baby Doll at The REP in 1999. More recently she has directed acclaimed productions of Titus Andronicus (The Globe) and Tonight At Eight Thirty (Chichester Festival).

Date	Time	Date information
Fri 7th Mar	19:30
Thu 13th Mar	14:30	Theatre Day
Thu 13th Mar	19:30
Fri 14th Mar	19:30	Spotlight
Sat 15th Mar	14:30
Wed 19th Mar	19:30	After Dark
Sat 29th Mar	19:30

“Vivid, inventive and intelligent, Lucy Bailey’s production of Ibsen’s 1888 drama has much to recommend it…this staging has a lush theatricality balanced by delicate moments of pain and tenderness, desolation and connection.”
The Times

“It is a delight to see the theatre right on track with this later work from the Norwegian playwright…Mike Poulton’s adaptation hits all the right notes with a finely tuned production.”
Birmingham Mail

“This production of an Ibsen rarity is a stunning return to form, demonstrating what this theatre does best…this production by Lucy Bailey has been treated with the most sophisticated theatrical craft”
Birmingham Post